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TIL there's a metal band with a parrot as their vocalist.

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8pjP TIL that there is a philosophical premise that states “if something cannot be settled by experiment, then it is not worthy of debate”. It’s name is “Newton’s Flaming Laser Sword” and is “much sharper and more dangerous than Occam’s Razor”.
ayLo TIL People with poor mathematical skills aren’t necessarily bad at math because they are ‘ungifted’. There is a phenomena called 'Math Anxiety’ that makes people perform worse, which sometimes leads to math avoidance, which leads to lesser knowledge and consequently more Math anxiety.
1Djd TIL scientists believed that during the Inflationary Epoch, roughly 10^-36 seconds after the Big Bang, the universe expanded by a factor of at least 10^26 — 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, becoming the size of a grapefruit.
Ym1B TIL the fire hydrant patent was destroyed when the patent office in Washington D.C. caught on fire in 1836
aw1no TIL in 2015 Uzbek farmers were forced to glue the cotton they had harvested back onto the plants to provide a scenic backdrop for the prime minister's visit to the area's famous cotton harvest festival. Much of the cotton had been harvested by forced labor as well.