Did you know that Engels, the main philosopher of communism along with Marx, left an inheritance of millions of dollars? Or that Spinoza's books were burned at Oxford University shortly after their author's death? And that Saint Teresa of Jesus is considered the first great feminist in history?
Did you know that among the philosophers that Sanzio painted in his fresco on Plato's Academy, there is a woman? And that this woman was murdered by a mob of Christian fanatics who skinned and dismembered her? Did you know that the latest revealed religion is "pastafarianism", the supernatural belief in a god identified as a bunch of spaghetti and meatballs? And that in Davos, where the most important economic and political summit in the world is currently being held, two of the greatest philosophers of all time faced each other, one of them a fervent supporter of Adolf Hitler?
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