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TIL, scholars in southwest India discovered one of the founding principles of modern mathematics hundreds of years before Newton

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DQ5AV TIL: The International Space Station has a separate Russian side rather than being entirely free-use.
9vOB TIL The Russian Tupolev bomber aircraft Tu-95 is supposedly so loud that its noise could be detected by the submarine sonars.
Bg8OW TIL about Huis Ten Bosch in Nagasaki, Japan; a theme park which recreates the Netherlands by displaying life-sized copies of old Dutch buildings.
7QjP TIL that 75% of women refuse to date men that are unemployed
MBoA TIL merchants were traditionally placed at the bottom of the four-tier social class system in feudal Japan because unlike artisans, farmers and fisherman, merchants weren’t considered productive.