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TIL the only person to ever play themselves in any Star Trek series was Stephen Hawking

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EYR7 TIL Thomas Paine, the man who inspired American independence, “was violently opposed to all international war, which he considered a conspiracy to subjugate and defraud peoples”
B0RL TIL That at one point in the 90’s, 50% of all CD’s produced worldwide were for AOL.
E1ARP TIL that a former US marine has made edible crayons
neYw9 TIL Avocado's were domesticated 5,000 years ago, making the cultivation of avocado's as old as the wheel.
0wkKM TIL of the Karaite Jews, an ancient sect hailing from Turkic countries. In 1934, members of the Karaite community asked the Nazis to exempt Karaites from the anti-Semitic laws based on their legal status as Russians, sparing them from the horrors of the Holocaust, despite them being fully Jewish