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TIL Florence Nightingale's god-daughter was beaten to death on a train in 1920 and her murder has never been solved.

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E1yY0 TIL Good Vibrations by The Beach Boys was one of the most expensive songs in history. "The cost of recording was phenomenal: between $50,000 and $75,000." It had used up 90 hours of tape from 17 separate recording dates with LA’s top sessioneer's for the 3min 36secs song.
rNmgW TIL a population bottleneck occurred in human evolution about 70,000 years ago, and one theory for why this occurred is a supervolcano eruption in Indonesia. It caused a volcanic winter, which resulted in a drop of the global mean surface temperature by 3–5 °C.
5VnZP TIL the Kepler Conjecture was first posed in 1611 says that the density of stacked spheres in a cube is around 74.05% and was only proven in 2014 due to the astoundingly many different arrangements possible
4Xl8N TIL about the ~2,000 yr old Roman aqueduct in Segovia Spain. 15km long. Almost 100 ft at highest. Almost 2,000 km by road to Rome. Carried water into the 1920's
b7V0 TIL Neil Young once wired up his house to be the left speaker and the barn as his right speaker so that he could listen to music from a boat in the middle of his lake.