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TIL that Stephan Hawking believes that communicating with aliens is dangerous for the Earth.

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pYJve TIL Iceland’s earliest settlers were probably Irish monks.
g6BA TIL that a man that died helping people in 9/11 was accused of being involved in the attack because he was muslim
69BZZ TIL that the USA feared that the economic crisis Britain was undergoing in the late 70s could endanger NATO and the European Economic Community, and directed the US treasury to attempt to force domestic policy changes on the UK
ANLQ7 TIL A Samurai named Seigo Yamazawa actually fought on the side of the Bulgarians during the Russo-Turkish War (1877–78). Eventually Bulgaria was liberated from the Ottomans. He has a bust today in present day Burgas regions.
Lkxe0 TIL Sir Frederick Banting, the Nobel-Prize-winning discoverer of insulin, created the first private biological weapon research centre in 1940. Soon afterwards, the US government was also pressed to perform such research by their British allies who feared a German attack with biological weapons.