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TIL that there was such a thing as Greek Fire, an ancient incendiary weapon of mass destruction.

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5YkxP TIL about Swineburne island, an abandoned artificial island off the coast of New York used during the 19th and 20th century as a quarantine for infected passengers
m11yM TIL that Nancy Astor, the first female Member of Parliament (UK) was an anti-Semite and Nazi sympathiser.
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