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TIL that Leibniz didn’t ‘steal’ calculus from Newton, he discovered it independently and invented a better format for it that we still use today

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RAQj TIL in the 1960s South Korea secretly trained misfits plucked from prison or off the streets to sneak into North Korea and slit the throat of its leader, Kim Il-sung. When the mission was aborted, the men mutinied, killed their trainers and fought their way into Seoul before blowing themselves up.
P8ye TIL King George III had an illness that caused his poop to turn purple
wV1E TIL a police office from South Korea went on the 2nd largest killing spree in history after an incident with a house fly.
5YKb8 TIL about the 2005 IKEA riots in Edmonton, London. The new shop was open for only 30 minutes before a literal riot had broken out resulting in 5 hospitalisations and one stabbing.
9wDAX TIL that actor Robert Reed hated playing Mike Brady on The Brady Bunch as he saw it as beneath his Shakespearean training. He often clashed with producers over the script. Despite this he got along very well with the rest of the cast and appeared in the show's spinoffs and sequels.