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yQDrJ TIL that while American mathematician David Blackwell was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, he was prevented from attending lectures at Princeton University because of his race. In 1965 was the first African American named to the National Academy of Sciences.
5Vr8r TIL that the Library of Alexandria was not burned once and cataclysmically destroyed, but instead declined gradually over the course of several centuries.
76N7 TIL That on September 10th, 2001, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld gave a speech that $2.3 Trillion of Pentagon funds had been unaccounted for, a figure that equated to $8,000 per US citizen that could not be traced to any transactions.
m1lwv TIL- For every 1 person living on earth, there are 15 dead people. Over 100 billion humans have been and gone before us.
5Vxa8 TIL the alibi Hermes provided after stealing 50 of Apollo's cattle: he WAS born yesterday and couldn't know what cattle were. When required to return the remaining unsacrificed cattle to Apollo, he distracted him by playing the lyre, and traded it for Apollo's cattle and position as divine herdsman