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TIL that Nicholas Flamel was a real person who is believed to have discovered the Philosopher’s stone

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WEeo TIL: In 1492, the Catholic monarchs of Spain issued a decree banning all Jews from Spain. Sultan Bayezid (a Muslim) then sent the Ottoman navy to Spain to rescue the Jews from the Spanish persecution.
ADxkg TIL about the BOKA Vanguard, is the world’s largest semi-submersible heavy lift ship and is typically used to lift offshore oil and gas structures. These pictures have to be seen to be believed as she “picks up” the cruise ship, Carnival Vista.
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jNoAQ TIL that Aldous Huxley's descriptions of the effects of alcohol on fetuses in Brave New World predate the scientific recognition of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome by more than four decades.