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TIL Isaac Newton was so obsessed with religion and alchemy that he wrote far more words on them than he ever did about gravity or optics.

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R7yZa TIL there is no "second" press of virgin oil, so the term "first press" means only that the oil was produced in a press vs. other possible methods.
ZEQo TIL Iceland forgave its entire population of Mortgage Debt and the media didn’t really pick up on it
6pmJ TIL King Harald of Norway vowed to remain unmarried for life unless he could marry his true love, the daughter of a cloth merchant. She became the Queen of Norway.
OG5yX TIL that Africa is being torn apart by the East African Rift. You can already see its effect by many lakes forming a line between the red sea and Lake Malawi
ADMO4 TIL of Django Reinhardt, a Jazz Gutiarist of the 1930's. He has been called one of the greatest musicians of the twentieth century, and he's among the first to play Jazz that featured guitar as the lead instrument. Doing it all while only having 3 fingers on his left hand due to a fire in 1928.