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TIL Stephen Colbert’s wife grew up two blocks away from him but did not meet him until 1990

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RZV8 TIL of a monk who had taken an old book written by Archimedes, erased the contents, and wrote over it with prayers. Scientists have determined that that monk erased a previously unknown book by Archimedes, that laid out the foundations of Calculus thousands of years before Newton and Leibniz.
7rKRp TIL the highest paid state employees in most states is a state university (men’s) athletic coach.
0dm0v TIL Pakistan has the highest rate of diabetes in the world, with almost one-third of the adult population affected
r7Lo TIL: That in 1996 The New York Times crossword correctly used either candidate of the presidential election as the answer to who would be elected the next day!
bY1p TIL There could be as many as 40 billion Earth-sized planets orbiting in the habitable zones of Sun-like stars and red dwarfs within the Milky Way.