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TIL Tom and Jerry and Popeye cartoons were secretly made in 60s in communist Czechoslovakia and names of the staff were americanized to avoid backlash

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YpKAd TIL Russia was actually the first country to form a Space Force from 1992 to 1997, and then again from 2001 to 2011.
XELbE TIL Plato's dialogue "Timaeus" presents the shapes of the four elements. Earth would be a cube, air an octahedron, of water an icosahedron, and of fire a tetrahedron. The dodecahedron represents the shape of the universe
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