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TIL the Irish potato famine was not about blight. There was plenty of food to feed everyone in Ireland. The main problem was greed. And British rulers who blamed the poor themselves.

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oRxDK TIL That the Last Emperor of China was, after being deposed, forced to work as a street sweeper in Beijing. On his first day, he got lost and asked for help by telling strangers “I'm Puyi, the last Emperor of the Qing dynasty. I'm staying with relatives and can't find my way home”
5gD9 TIL the astrophysicist who first proposed what is now know as the “Big Bang” theory, was the Catholic priest, Georges Lemaître.
gVJy TIL identical twin boys were raised as a brother-sister pair (botched circumcision). The truth came when the one being raised as a girl INSISTED he was a boy; the parents admitted he was the subject of an experiment trying to prove gender identity was nurture, not nature. He later committed suicide.
L1Xr TIL in 1938 a revolver-camera was invented to take a picture just as the trigger was pulled.
kJw5 TIL Albania is the only European country to save 100% of their jewish population during WWII