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TIL that Nicolaus Copernicus proposed the heliocentric solar system (making the sun the center of the solar system instead of earth) from his death bed because he was aware of the controversy it would cause and the danger it proposed to him. He was right.

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VQnm TIL that in 1983 Ronald Reagan said “There are some people who would have you so stand on principle that if you don’t get all that you’ve asked for, you jump off the cliff with the flag flying…I believe half a loaf is better than none and that…you’re not going to always get everything you want.”
x7gb TIL in a South Philly High School Asian students were the target of racial violence and received little support from school keep them safe. They organized their own boycott and brought down the administration.
lo5mN TIL that British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was forced to apologize to the mother of a dead serviceman in 2009 after he sent her a handwritten letter of condolence that misspelled her name. The Sun tabloid then attacked Brown for making the mistake, & in doing so managed to make the same mistake.
wLd5E TIL James Earl Jones demanded David Prowse receive sole credit for portraying Darth Vader believing that his voice was 'just special effects'
WklnN TIL that when dogs and cats are kept with petsitters for a long duration, they will sometimes change their colors, patterns, and behaviors. This is totally normal and in no way suggests anything happened to your original dog, Mike.