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TIL that when a priest asked Voltaire to renounce Satan, Voltaire’s last words were “Now is not the time for making new enemies”.

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m1VLY TIL In 1942 Punxatawney Phil (the Groundhog) did not make a prediction on the remaining length of winter but claimed to only see a partial shadow, adding that, “War clouds have blacked out parts of the shadow.”
OGx1 TIL a highschool kid developed a better way to make fuel oil from algae.
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