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6bDW TIL Grigori Perelman, a Russian mathematician, successfully proved the Poincaré conjecture (one of the seven Millennium problems) in papers made available in 2002 and 2003. When his work survived review, he was offered a Fields Medal and the $1,000,000 Millennium Prize, both of which he turned down.
neOM9 TIL Billie Holiday was arrested and jailed five months for prostitution at age 14.
4Do6 TIL that during the Battle of Stalingrad, Soviet forces held a single apartment building for 60 days against daily German assaults. The building was transformed into a fortress, with 4 layers of barbed wire, minefields, and a machinegun in nearly every window.
NOlP TIL In 1833, Britain used 40% of its national budget to buy freedom for all slaves in the Empire.
WQBY TIL that ¾ of American lesbians are overweight.