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TIL that Thomas Edison really couldn't stand Mathematics. He struggled getting through Newton's Principia Mathematica and so made it a priority to hire mathematicians.

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neRx9 TIL that former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt was a heavy smoker. He was well known for lighting up during TV interviews and talk shows. He was also charged with defying smoking bans. In 1981 he got a pacemaker. Despite these he died as the longest living chancellor at the age of 96.
WrmL TIL A group of writers purposely wrote a terrible novel full of nothing but sex scenes to prove how vulgar American literary culture had become. It became a bestseller.
vEDK TIL that witchcraft is so accepted in Romania that in 2011 the government tried to tax witches to help pull the country out of recession.
MeOO7 TIL - Classic Yellow Mustard is one of (If not) the healthiest condiment in the world.
Oo741 TIL fish pee from their gills and the reefs they pee on thrive because of it.