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TIL the French philosopher Voltaire scoffed at Isaac Newton for thinking men would one day travel at speeds greater than 50mph

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YYJr TIL Pablo Escobar burned $2 million to keep his daughter warm.
QJGRd TIL If you were condemned to death in a Nazi medical experiment but later resurrected in another Nazi medical experiment you would be "pardoned to concentration camp for life"
DEOj TIL that in an experiment where a kitten was raised in the same cage as a rat, the cat not only refrained from attacking the rat, but the two became close companions, and the cat refused to chase or kill any other rats as well.
5VYD TIL Texas is removing Thomas Jefferson from their history books as a founding father in favor for John Calvin.
awAJL TIL in 1969, upon request from Richard Nixon, NASA made 250 display plaques for the 50 US states, 135 countries, and the UN. Flags from all the countries and states were flown on board Apollo 11 to the moon and back, and were gifted to each respective state along with fragments of the lunar surface.