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TIL that the FBI classified an MIT doctoral candidate's research on animal rights as a threat to national security

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deGj TIL that the first settlers of Madagascar arrived from Indonesia several hundred years before the Bantu people of Southeastern Africa came to the island. As a result, the people of Madagascar have some physical features characteristic of Southeast Asians.
x6XP0 TIL Lynn Redgrave is the only person to have been nominated for an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony without winning any of them.
ZO1p TIL there is still a subway station that hasn’t reopened since 9/11
nPQ7 TIL The son of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, who was once the brand ambassador, was dismissed from company board meetings after he spoke out against Playboy’s current leadership and its non-nude magazine restructuring
9YDjB TIL Rubik's cube has 43 quintillion combinations, and you are never more than 20 moves away from the solution.