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TIL half of the world’s roundabouts are in France

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gMam8 TIL the mathematician Paul Erdős regularly used amphetamines to increase his mathematical output. His friend bet him he couldn't stop using them for a month - Erdős won the bet but claimed that it had caused mathematics to be set back by a month.
9wn7 TIL that Grace Kelly became close friends with dancer Josephine Baker after Kelly stormed out of a nightclub in NYC that Baker was denied entry because she was black.
Y7P8P TIL of the Brown Snake Eagle. It is specially adapted to target a variety of venomous snakes such as the puff adder, and has even been known to prey upon fully grown black mambas.
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DQvep TIL of "The Year 2440", an 18th century novel considered one of the first sci-fi novels and the first one set in the distant future. It became one of the most popular and most controversial books of its era, it was banned in many countries and the spanish king personally burned its copies