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TIL that the first time the red flag was flown as a symbol of workers’ rebellion in the UK was during the 1831 Merthyr Rising in Wales.

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BgQoe TIL that the epistemological views of last head of Plato’s Academy Philo of Larissa are remarkably close to modern epistemology. He believed that even the most perfectly rational evidence and facts are compatible with massive errors and beliefs should be based on the available facts and evidence.
On7R TIL Elevator Music was created to distract riders from the terrifying sounds of early elevators.
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v1Jxj TIL about the Kentucky Meat Shower, an incident in which chunks of meat mysteriously fell from the sky in 1876.
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