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TIL the saying 'Great minds think alike' has a second part, 'and small minds rarely differ.'

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gyxb TIL On New Year’s Eve 2014, 835 of 1000 police officers meant to be on duty in Rome phoned in sick.
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OoYeL TIL that Three physicists flew around the world twice in 1971 with synced atomic clocks to test out the time dilation theory. Upon meeting up, they found that all 3 of the clocks disagreed with each other.
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