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TIL that Garfield was never meant to be funny.

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v17VB TIL Tu Youyou discovered artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin, used to treat malaria, a breakthrough in twentieth-century tropical medicine, saving millions of lives. She is described as “almost completely forgotten by people”.
Kr5J TIL an airline pilot ordered 30 pizzas for his passengers after finding they would be delayed for weather. The pizzas were cleared by security and sent directly to the plane.
dVb9 TIL Thomas Jefferson could read and write in 6 languages Greek, Latin, French, Italian, Spanish, and English. Post death, a number of books, dictionaries, and grammar manuals also suggest he knew Arabic, Gaelic, and Welsh.
KBGa [TIL]Winston Churchill had a plan set forth called “Operation Unthinkable” which called for the Allies to link up with surviving German forces and attack the Soviets if the USSR did not stop their advance at Berlin.
m1d0Y TIL about the Egg fried rice protests by Chinese internet users against the government, occurring yearly around October 24, the birthday of Mao Anying, son of Mao Zedong, or around November 25, the date of his death.