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TIL: Richard Feynman was divorced for doing too much calculus

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1Xy8 TIL: James Joyce has love letters considered so vulgar to this day no publisher will print them.
p1ye TIL that Adopting is considered taboo in Korea and because of this, South Korea’s orphans are almost never adopted unless a foreigner adopts them
Ypy7G TIL International space station has the internet speed of 600MB per second
rDR4 TIL that the CIA and MI6 orchestrated a 1953 overthrow of Mohammad Mosaddegh, a secular, democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran. This led to 26 years of rule under a repressive monarch.