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TIL that out of 1,000,000 LEGO blocks manufactured, only about 18 blocks are rejected.

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5VPBB TIL that underneath Paul Klee's famous paining "Angelus Novus," which inspired Walter Benjamin's "angel of history," lies a portrait of the radical early modern theologian Martin Luther.
N7lg6 TIL people vandalize and protest the statue of Winston Churchill, one of the great humans of history - a true giant of our race, a man who may have literally saved the world from Nazi rule
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