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TIL Stephen Fry is bipolar and when asked if he wished to undo the effects of manic depression he replied “Not for all the tea in China.”

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ZOmY TIL Less well-known to foreigners, Camilo Cienfuegos is revered in Cuba as a hero of the Revolution, with monuments, memorials, and an annual celebration in his honour, where school children throughout Cuba throw flowers into the sea. He went missing in mysterious circumstances in 1959.
gMWa9 TIL that in 1997, 14 year old Nathan Zohner was able to get 43 out of 50 of his classmates to vote to ban "Dihydrogen Monoxide" for his science fair project. His project aimed to prove that the use of true facts can lead the ignorant public to false conclusions. He won first prize.
Egx1X TIL "1" wasn't considered a number by Ancient Greeks (even Aristotle & Euclid). Numbers were multitudes of units (1 was the unit). "One is the seed of number but not number." This view didn't change til 1701 AD, when 1 was defined as a number in the first math dictionary: "Mathematicks Made Easie"
xXob TIL Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara had only 1 female guerrilla fighter - and she was a radio host that provided encoded information live on-air through relationship advice to fictitious lovelorn couples.
R5KE7 TIL that when Indianapolis attempted to relocate Greenlawn Cemetery in 1899, they discovered that most of the graves had been robbed. The bodies were likely stolen for use as dissection subjects at local medical schools.