TIL New York State’s top trial courts are called the Supreme Court because in the 17th century, it was common for some English trial courts to be called the Supreme Court so New York never changed their name. Their highest court remains the Court of Appeals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Supreme_Court
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TIL of Norwegian weightlifter Solfrid Koanda. After only a few days of formal training, she immediately qualified for her first competition and set a national record. Afterwards, she won 3 straight European Championships and became Norway’s first female Olympic weightlifting champion at Paris 2024.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solfrid_Koanda
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TIL, 470 million years ago, Everest was sea floor (Tethys Ocean) , now it has the highest peak 29,031.69 ft(8,848.86 meters)

https://www.greenmatters.com/nature/was-mount-everest-under-water
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TIL that there has been over 100 attacks inspired by the Columbine massacre since 1999 and most of them have happened in the last 10 years, the amount of inspired attacks/tributes is increasing at a rapid rate and has reached countries in almost every continent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsko4AaAUVM&t=3s
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TIL that although Buddhism originated in India, today only 0.70% of India's population is Buddhist. Contributing factors to its decline in the country included Hun and Muslim invasions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Buddhism_in_India
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TIL that there is a cow buried on campus at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, named "Illini Nellie" (1927-1940)

https://uiaa.org/2023/09/12/illini-411-whys-there-a-cow-buried-on-campus/
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TIL that retaining the “fores and afters” of distillations has never been the cause of methanol poisonings. In fact, the prohibition era US government mandated that methanol must be blended into industrial alcohol stocks. Bootleggers then stole and sold these denatured, industrial-grade alcohols.

https://prohibition.themobmuseum.org/the-history/the-prohibition-underworld/alco…
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TIL the Washington Naval Treaty signed in February 6, 1922, forced countries to limit their battleships but ended up creating Super Aircraft Carriers instead

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Naval_Treaty
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TIL that during the 1920s, a doctor named John Brinkley became one of the wealthiest men in America by surgically implanting goat testicles into men to cure impotence. He was so popular he almost became the Governor of Kansas.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9529641/?hl=en-US
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TIL that a fruitcake baked in 1878 has been passed down five generations as a family heirloom. The cake was preserved to honor its maker, Fidelia Ford. The round brown slab is hard as a rock with a blistered surface. It's kept in an antique glass compote dish with a lid.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/12/12/tecumseh-family-141-year-old-fruitcake-r…
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TIL; Christopher Columbus was eventually arrested and stripped of his titles in 1500

https://postalmuseum.si.edu/exhibition/celebrating-hispanic-heritage-exploration-christopher-columbus/columbus-imprisoned
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TIL about the British arthictectural artist and autistic savant, Stephen Wiltshire. He is able to draw an entire landscape in detail from memory after seeing it just once.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Wiltshire
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