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TIL Stalin secretly helped write Poland's 1952 constitution

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4DV5 TIL there are only seventeen different ways of rotating and reflecting a pattern such that it completely covers a 2D plane. The Alhambra in Spain contains examples of all seventeen.
9wQ6G TIL that this one stuntman, Takaiwa Seiji, was the lead-suit (protagonist's transformed form) actor for most of the Kamen Rider series from 1988 to 2020.
wolko TIL the Jeffersonians sought to align the American economy more with agriculture than industry. Part of their motive to do so was Jefferson's fear that the over-industrialization of America would create a class of wage slaves who relied on their employers for income and sustenance.
7jJL TIL humans are the best known throwers in the animal kingdom. Even children can reach pitching speeds of ~70 mph, while healthy adult chimpanzees, our closest living relatives, can only throw at ~20 mph.
epyxL TIL Great Britain accidentally adopted a de facto gold standard in 1717 when Sir Isaac Newton, then-master of the Royal Mint, set the exchange rate of silver to gold too low, thus causing silver coins to go out of circulation.