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TIL the Scorpions made a song in Japanese. The vocalist sung the first stanza and then gave up.

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b66AE TIL Astronomer Rudolf Wolf tried to estimate pi using a needle experiment. He conducted experiments throwing the needle 5000 times, obtaining a value of 3.1596
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