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TIL that comedian Keegan-Michael Key and DC Comics writer Dwayne McDuffie were half-brothers.

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j6j6M TIL about Operation Nemesis, a secret plan executed by Armenia to hunt down and assassinate perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide. The assassins successfully killed 11 of the highest ranking officials responsible for orchestrating the genocide across at least 5 different countries.
R74Yl TIL Socrates was very worried that the increasing use of books in education would have the effect of ruining students' ability to memorise things. We only remember this now because Plato wrote it down.
57g9 TIL that many small spiders, insects, viruses and bacteria float 1000’s of feet above the ground. They are guided by the atmosphere, and are the terrestrial analogue to ocean plankton.
Yp8QG TiL Chinese courts convict more than 99.9% of defendants
W7km4 TIL that the Tartaria conspiracy theory claims that pre-modern architecture such as the Egyptian pyramids and Great Wall of China was constructed by a lost empire more technologically advanced than present civilization