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TIL Plato wrote of the Ring of Gyges: A shepherd found a golden ring in a tomb in a cave, pocketed it, realized it could make him invisible, used it to seduce the queen, commit regicide, and become the new king.
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TIL Malcolm X said that white people could not join his black nationalist Organization of Afro-American Unity, but "if John Brown were still alive, we might accept him." Brown was a famous abolitionist convicted and hanged for treason after attempting to lead a slave rebellion in 1859.
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TIL that in the 1920's newly hired engineers at General Electric would be told, as a joke, to develop a frosted lightbulb. The experienced engineers believed this to be impossible. In 1925, newly hired Marvin Pipkin got the assignment not realizing it was a joke and succeeded.
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TIL the sale of weed in Uruguay is strictly state-controlled. There are three ways to access weed: home cultivation, cannabis clubs, and pharmacies.
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TIL that a small town in Louisiana had the area code “666” for phone numbers, until enough residents complained about the reference to the devil that they finally decided to change it in 2007.