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TIL that the creator of Legos made a policy of no military sets because he didn’t want war to seem like child’s play.

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mxA9E TIL for centuries, Poland was home to the largest and most significant Jewish community in the world. Poland sheltered Jews persecuted and expelled from various European countries. About three-quarters of the world's Jews lived in Poland by the middle of the 16th century.
JY9OV TIL that Chinese Paddlefish, one of the largest freshwater fishes, found mainly in the Yangtze river in China has been declared extinct in the wild after surviving 150 million years on this planet due to overfishing and construction of the Gezhouba Dam.
b9Lm4 TIL of Anthony de Lucy, 3rd Baron Lucy. De Lucy was an English knight and crusader who died on campaign in the year 1368. In 1981 De Lucy's extremely well preserved remains were found in a crypt beneath the ruins of St. Bees Abbey in Lincolnshire, England, which had since become a car park.
9wQlB TIL all the stars we see in the night sky are in our own Milky Way Galaxy
DQ1PD TIL a man named John Darwin faked his death at sea for life insurance money and hid next door to his family home whilst he was presumed dead