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TIL Facebook played a role in a modern genocide.

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0w8Rp TIL that Franklin Roosevelt probably didn't have polio. His symptoms were more consistent with an autoimmune disorder called Guillain-Barre syndrome.
d8N09 TIL all of Uranus’ moons are named after characters from Shakespeare’s plays
OoKn6 TIL some streets in Old San Juan, PR are paved with blue cobblestones, called adoquines, and were made from the waste, or slag, that resulted from iron smelting, then cast into blocks and brought to the island as ballasts in the bottoms of 18th-century Spanish ships.
gR4y TIL that Sir Terry Pratchett’s coat of arms contain the Latin phrase, “Noli Timere Messorem,” translated as “Don’t Fear the Reaper.”
0wYoM TIL there are sea slugs that incorporates chloroplasts into their bodies, making them the only multicellular animals that can photosynthesize.