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TIL Dolly Parton set up a charity that distributes eight million children’s books per year for free

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Wk0WB TIL Nazi physicists rejected Einstein's theory of relativity as "Jewish science"
VMlnm TIL On his second day in office, President Jimmy Carter pardoned all of the Vietnam War draft evaders.
VMdpZ TIL Lake Baikal in Russia contains 22%-23% of the worlds fresh surface water, and a max depth of 5387 feet
16MgX TIL North Korea actually dropped communism from their constitution in 2009
Oxd1 TIL The Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Ancient Wonders of the World, stood for a mere 50 years before it was destroyed by an earthquake. Its ruins stood and attracted visitors for way longer than the original statue (reportedly hundreds of years) before it was finally recycled for scrap metal.