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TIL a Japanese sushi chain CEO majorly contributed to a drop in piracy off the Somalian coast by providing the pirates with training as tuna fishermen

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OoN7g TIL Isaac Newton formulated laws of optics, gravity and calculus in his early 20s while in lockdown from the plague.
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