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TIL Finland has 178,947 islands.
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TIL: Pythagoras hated beans and forbid his followers to even touch them, Da Vinci and Norbert Weiner were vegetarian, Charles Darwin ate the exotic animals he studied such as tortoises and armadillos, and Aristophanes attributed Athens' intellect to a low calorie diet.
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TIL that the first Final Fantasy was programmed by a single developer who did not “fully understand what an RPG was”
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TIL the longest UN speech in history was delivered by Indian Defense Minister Krishna Menon in 1957. Defending India's stand on Kashmir, the speech lasted eight hours and ended with his collapse and hospitalization due to exhaustion
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TIL There is a fire in a Kyoto temple that has been perpetually burning for over 1200 years
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TIL that Underwater Hockey is a thing, has been since 1954, and is popular enough to have both Men's and Women's national championships.