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TIL Karl Marx was a savvy stock investor
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TIL that Vladimir The Great, Prince of Kiev, considered converting from Paganism to Islam. He sent envoys to study Islam, but upon Learning that Islam forbade alcohol and pork, he got baptized himself and baptized Kiev Rus
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TIL: There is a specific term for a young woman's first period... Menarche.
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TIL Mao Zedong killed more people in his rein over China than Hitler and Stalin combined.
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TIL Contrary to popular belief, the City of New York was not named directly after York in England, but for the Duke of York, who was later crowned as King James II. When England seized the area from the Dutch, he was appointed as its proprietor by his older brother, King Charles II.
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TIL that complex numbers in quantum mechanics are not auxiliary, but rather a necessity in order to avoid contradiction.