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TIL that while impressed by his book "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica", the UK's science academy couldn't publish Isaac Newton's book due to being nearly bankrupt from spending all of its money printing the "History of Fish". Thankfully, scientist Edmond Halley's funded the printing.

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OoX84 TIL mahaska was a 1920s slang for gun and the origin is unclear.
R71p4 TIL Anne Frank wrote about the changes her body was going through in her diary, but her dad edited those parts out of the published manuscript.
gMNjL TIL the Netherlands loaned 2,5 million dollars to John Adams, who was the ambassador to NL back in 1782. This was done in order to stabilize the US after their war of independence finished. In today's value that would be a loan of roughly 150 billion dollars.
x6okB TIL about 4% of all stocks generated all $34.8 trillion in wealth for shareholders between July 1926 and December 2016. 96% of all stocks collectively performed no better than 1- month treasury bonds.
W7xk8 TIL that people in sunny tropical countries can be Vitamin D deficient