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TIL that Sir Isaac Newton died a virgin

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woxj6 TIL: The whole world is connected with undersea fiber optic cables (man-made)
4kgmb TIL: After the development of the atomic bomb, "Uranium Fever" caused by high demand for radioactive material led approximately ten thousand people to the Southwest U.S. to mine Uranium.
690GX TIL one of the longest writings preserved in Pompeii is the poem of a woman yearning for another woman
graY8 TIL 2 teens secretly scaled the Acropolis on 5/30/41 in Nazi-occupied Greece & stole the Nazi flag that was flying atop it. Their heroic act of defiance inspired Greeks to believe themselves capable of resisting the Nazis & their occupation of Greece. The teens were never caught & died of old age!
YM5v TIL that lying to, or misinforming somebody about events or facts (with the purpose of making them doubt their memory or sanity), is called Gaslighting