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TIL that Einstein was asked to be Israel’s second president and refused as he had “neither the natural ability nor the experience to deal with human beings”

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yQm1e TIL in 1961, as the 17th century Swedish war ship Vasa was being lifted from the sea, statue of a runner was found on board, momentarily baffling scientists. It was placed there as prank by Finnish students on their way to party in Stockholm.
XGnj TIL Injecting the blood of young mice into old mice can reverse or slow aging and humans also have these same proteins.
vP50j TIL that Margaret Thatcher's son was heavily involved in financing an attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea
yQYeJ TIL that Akira Kurosawa was unable to get funding after a series of flops, and only returned to filmmaking after attempted suicide when the Soviet Union enlisted him to make a film set in Russia
GAGWG TIL that the Chinese economic reform was traced to an agreement of farmers in a small village in Eastern China