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TIL that some people call an end of a loaf of bread a heel.

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Y7XP7 TIL In 1695 Henry Every became the target of the first world-wide manhunt. Every and his crew raided the Mughal's Grand fleet, stealing the equivalent to £97.1 million in 2022, and almost started a war with the English's East Indian Company and Mughal Empire. What became of Every is unknown.
9YPEr TIL Marie Curie’s daughter, Irène Curie, also studied radioactivity, and, like her mother, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry for her work. She also died from complications due to radiation poisoning, which was unknown at the time.
0wMbv TIL there is no constitutional requirement for a U.S. State to hold presidential elections. A State legislature can theoretically just handpick its presidential electors.
WpvB TIL that as of 2005, Minsk, the capital of Belarus, does not have a single school with education carried out in the Belarusian language.