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Today I learned that any Rubik's cube combination can be solved in 20 moves or less

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o5Kr TIL there is a Iron Pillar in Delhi that has avoided rusting for 1600 years. The pillar has been called a testament to the skill of ancient Indian blacksmiths".
rwo4 TIL Bill Gates could give away 98% of his wealth and still be a billionaire.
GoQN TIL Harvard Law School listed a white professor who was 1/32nd cherokee as a minority professor in response to criticisms about a lack of faculty diversity
Bgdpd TIL when Marco Polo visited Tibet in the 1270s, he would sometimes be courted by 20 or 30 unmarried women who sought to do pleasure with as many men as possible and receive at least 20 tokens as proof of being desirable for marriage. He wrote “what a fine country that is for young fellows to go to!”
40PX TIL that a man blinded in the Russian Civil War went on to create an Olympic target pistol so radically different that it was banned from competition after 1956 … also Princess Leia used it in Star Wars