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TIL that one of Portugal's most important writers was given the wrong surname at birth, being called by a local shrub instead of his family name.

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Oo4ye TIL Pigs are smarter than any other domestic animal and they are considered by animal experts to be more trainable than dogs or cats.
DQeQJ TIL 80% of the US population lives in the eastern half of the continental US
wLya8 TIL that while Issac Newton was essentially quarantined at his home when Cambridge was closed in 1665 due to the Plague, he discovered the groundwork for his theories of calculus and the laws of motion.
VdK0 TIL that “o'clock” is a contraction of “stroke of the clock” and comes from 15th century references to medieval mechanical clocks
Maw0 TIL: Neerja Bhanot, a 22-year-old Indian air hostess who helped hide 41 American passports aboard a hijacked plane. She died shielding three children from gunfire and was posthumously awarded bravery medals from India, Pakistan, and the United States.