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TIL Juice Company Dumped 12,000 Tonnes Of Orange Peels On Virtually Lifeless Soil, 16 Years Later, It Turned Into A Lush Forest

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v1rKx TIL that at 23 years old, Isaac Newton went into quarantine due to the bubonic plague. During his time in quarantine, he proved the refractive properties of prisms, invented calculus, and was famously hit on the head by an apple.
VBAvD TIL atomic bomb testing has changed our biology
kJpJB TIL that mathematician John von Neumann had an unusual ability to solve new problems. When presented with a problem in programming on which there had been no published literature, he said "Oh, that!", then gave a lecture of over an hour explaining how to solve it using a hitherto unconceived theory
wo8No TIL: Johnny Cash Covered Soundgarden's "Rusty Cage" and Was Nominated for a Grammy in the Category of Best Male Country Vocal Performance
wdGo TILNapoleon visited the Great Pyramid in a 1798 expedition,and asked to be left alone while inside the King’s Chamber.When he emerged, visibly shaken,he refused to comment, and never wanted it mentioned again.On his deathbed when asked what happened he said"No,what’s the use.You’d never believe me.“