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TIL That Sir Patrick Stewart used to regularly fabricate fake news in the newspaper he worked for because he was spending his time practicing theatre with a theatre company during times that conflicted with his work schedule as a journalist.

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Odp1 TIL that Leonardo da Vinci would dissect dead human remains and then draw what he saw. Dissection was completely illegal unless one was a physician, which da Vinci was not.
jVNj TIL That Cleveland Brown will be returning to Quahog with his new family after the cancellation of ‘The Cleveland Show’
R5g86 TIL Jamaican-born Dr. Kenneth Melville was one of the first Black medical students at McGill University in Montreal who became an internationally respected pharmacologist. He was pivotal in the battle for racial justice, civil rights, and human rights in Canada.
e0pb4 TIL it takes more water to make a water bottle than the water it contains
Z474 TIL Venezuela’s prisons are so bad, that the inmates hold gladiatorial matches to settle disputes (Also, in that country, a person is murdered every 21 minutes. And in the last 15 years, there has been upwards of 200,000 murders)