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TIL that the ice pick used to kill Leon Trotsky is on display at the International Spy Museum in Washington, District of Columbia

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jNl6N TIL that Euler, one of the greatest mathematicians to ever live and certainly the most prolific, completed about half of his life’s work completely blind
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