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p7VG TIL that Mikhail Gorbachev chose to not have his birthmark removed, because he believed the public would perceive him as being more concerned with his appearance than other more important issues.
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OoRe TIL that there is a mathematical formula that when graphed, produces an image of the formula itself
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