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TIL that a Japanese mathematician independently invented much of calculus

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7vJp TIL of Yvonne, Annette, Cecile, Emilie & Marie Dionne, the first quintuplets to have survived their infancy. Instant celebrities, they were taken from their parents by the Canadian government, who raised them for the first 9 years of their lives in a major tourist attraction known as “Quintland”
AOMa TIL that in 1981, the Russians successfully landed on the surface of the hottest planet on our Solar System, Venus. The Venera 13 probe later returned the first color images of the surface of Venus.
xK00 TIL that the 1946 ‘Adventures of Superman’ radio show revealed the 'secret’ codes and rituals of the KKK, making it a laughingstock and drying up Klan recruitment almost overnight
wLMQo TIL that Tom Lee, a river worker, saved 32 passengers from a sinking M.E. Norman steamboat on May 8, 1925. Tom Lee Park in Memphis is named after him.
AE0g TIL 30% of American adults do not consume any alcohol ever