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TIL Benjamin Franklin was the only man to sign the Constitution, Declaration of Independence, and the Treaty of Paris of 1776.

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nW9wr TIL Isaac Newton invested in the “South Sea Company” which profited from the sale of some British goods and, more significantly and more grimly, enslaved Africans
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