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TIL that, Beginning with “Irishmen & Irishwomen”, the Proclamation of the Irish Republic is the only one of its period to mention women equally.

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Oo1Oa TIL Georges Seurat's 1886 A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte is composed of millions of tiny dots rather than brush strokes.
wKMJ TIL Physicist Richard Feynman memorized pi up to the 762nd digit, where there are six 9’s in a row, just so he could joke, “…9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9 and so on…”. For this reason, this sequence of 9’s is named the Feynman Point.
rVMW TIL: Most people use the word ‘antisocial’ incorrectly. Antisocial refers to behavior that harms other people/the society. Asocial is the word people mean to use when referring to not wanting/having social relationships or interactions.
e8BL TIL the FBI recruited a mafia enforcer to help solve the slaying of three civil rights workers by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi in the 1960s. Gregory Scarpa kidnapped a klansman, put a gun in his mouth and forced him to reveal the spot where the three had been buried.
7rwkb TIL Russia did not treat beer as an alcoholic beverage until 2011. Before that, beer was classified as a soft drink.