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TIL The richest man in the world is built around $38B in government funds.

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Yp7rZ TIL that Isaac Newton, who revolutionized mathematics and physics, spent almost as much time writing about and studying alchemy, and firmly believed in its viability as a science.
4Y9b TIL that the name of a flock of ravens is “an unkindness of ravens” or a “Conspiracy of ravens”.
69EVJ TIL one of the convict ships to Australia in the early 1800s was just called "Dick"
5Y1g8 TIL that DNC party bosses stole the VP nomination from Henry Wallace and got Truman on the ballot with FDR in 1944
9wZnp TIL during the 17th and 18th centuries English capitalized all nouns (as in Gulliver's Travels, and most of the original 1787 United States Constitution) similar to the German language of today