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TIL Socrates taught Plato, Plato taught Aristotle, then Aristotle taught Alexander the Great.

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WkQPX TIL Konstanz is one of the few towns in Germany left untouched by the Second World War. Instead of blackout, the city would leave all its lights on at night in order to fool Allied bomber crews into thinking that it was part of nearby Switzerland.
b8g7 TIL that in 2002, Irish police raided a judge’s home and found child pornography on his computer, but the judge was found ‘Not Guilty’ of possession as the warrant used was one day out of date.
lob5N TIL Kenney Jones, the man who replaced Keith Moon in The Who, was with Moon during the last night of his life.
oBw9o TIL Bigfoot is an Endangered Species in some States.
a1DA TIL of the 2010 Plain Writing Act, requiring that government agencies use plain (easy-to-read) English in every document they write