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TIL that Leon Trotsky, a central figure of the Soviet Union, frequented a Jewish dairy restaurant in the Bronx but refused to tip as a matter of principle. This led to one incident where the waiters intentionally spilled hot soup on him.

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kJaN7 TIL that nearly 16,000 COVID cases went unreported in England because Public Health England used a legacy .xls Excel spreadsheet file that can only handle up to 65536 rows to record cases instead of a proper database.
AD8l7 TIL that people misunderstood the 12 years to save the earth. the IPCC never said the world is gonna end in 12 years they said we have 12 to go carbon neutral. but got oversimplified to 12 years which made people think in 12 years the world ends.
dKXr TIL that Big Boi of Outkast was arrested leaving a cruise ship for possession of ecstacy and Viagra. After his release, he tweeted, “Shiiiiit they said it was the Love Boat.“
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