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TIL in 1969 a 13 year old Tanzanian schoolboy posed a question scientists still can’t answer

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ygnp TIL that Roosevelt is on the dime because he helped create March of Dimes, the organization that was originally a campaign to fund polio research.
X9X6 TIL Master Chief is 6'10" without armour and 7'2" with armour.
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