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TIL about Nasir Geblli, a genius Iranian-American programmer for Final Fantasy I-III. His accomplishments include the airship, the first RPG mini game, and many more

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byb4 TIL that in 1913, Adolf Hitler, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Tito, Sigmund Freud and Joseph Stalin all lived within a few miles of each other in central Vienna, with some of them being regulars at the same coffeehouses.
ADMRn TIL that 300 million years ago, trees didn't rot because the microbes to do so didn't exist yet.
awerL TIL that years before Peary reached the North Pole, he kidnapped a native child and stole one of the world's largest iron meteorites from the Inuit in Greenland, delivering both to the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
wLeWM Today I learned that you can die from plucking your nose hairs. The follicle can get infected, and that infection can pass its way through the bloodstream to the brain. The area surrounding your mouth and nose is called the "danger triangle" for this reason. Use a trimmer instead.