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TIL NFL great Jim Brown retired at only 29 while filming "The Dirty Dozen"

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0we4R TIL in 1999 Professor Bill Ditto made a simple calculator using the neurons taken out of leeches; word's first biological computer. It was aptly named the "leech-ulator".
xkDb TIL that Nazi Germany treated black people generally indifferently, and as a result most black people we treated far better than Jews or homosexuals.
YYMW TIL in order to keep the title “Democratic”, North Korea holds elections every 5 years in which the ballots list only one candidate.
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