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TIL Alexander the Great once asked Diogenes, a homeless Greek philosopher who lived in a barrel, if there was something he could do for him. Diogenes replied “yes, get out of my sun”. Alexander left saying, “If I wasn’t Alexander, I’d like to be Diogenes.”

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