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TIL Ryan Stiles is a high school drop out

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dDrxj TIL Vikings raided in Iran in the 9th and 10th century via the Caspian Sea
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d8yxK TIL Philosopher C. D. C. Reeve recently translated the works of Aristotle into a new series. "He has managed to present Aristotle’s often ungainly Greek into perfectly flowing English syntax without sacrificing the core meaning of the text"
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