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TIL Sir Isaac Newton’s self proclaimed greatest achievement was his lifelong celibacy.

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YpkdA TIL that 500,000 Papuans have been killed by the Indonesian military since 1969
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K8Ma TIL: During the Great Potato Famine, the Ottoman Empire sent ships full of food, were turned away by the British, and then snuck into Dublin illegally to provide aid to the starving Irish.
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