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TIL Ayn Rand took Social Security benefits and likely medicaid as well.

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P1gJE TIL the flying insect population has decreased ~60% since the year 2000
R1B4 TIL a philosophy riddle from 1688 was recently solved. If a man born blind can feel the differences between shapes such as spheres and cubes, could he, if given the ability, distinguish those objects by sight alone? In 2003 five people had their sight restored though surgery, and, no they could not.
NRw1 TIL the KKK didn’t originally burn crosses. It wasn’t until they were portrayed doing so in the 1915 silent film “Birth of a Nation” that the real KKK actually started doing it.
6EOg7 TIL that Nov 28th in the United States is Native American Heritage Day and that an estimated 50 million Native Americans died between 1500-1600, roughly 10% of the world population, resulting in a “little ice-age”
0wJXN TIL: The piano Freddie Mercury used to record "Bohemian Rhapsody" is the same one Paul McCartney used on "Hey Jude"