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TIL that the cows living on Queen Elizabeth's estate sleep on waterbeds.

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M80b TIL in 1959, a group attempting to find the path used by Hannibal’s army to cross the Alps and invade Roman Italy successfully traversed the Alps from France to Italy with an 11yr old former circus elephant named Jumbo.
j6XZj TIL that Philip Gale was a child prodigy who killed himself at age 19 by jumping from a classroom window. Before he did it, he wrote on the blackboard Newton's equation for how an object accelerates as it falls, along with a sketch of a stick figure tossing a chair. He signed it, " Phil was here. "
Wb0L TIL NASA has confirmed Earth has a space-time vortex. It was measured by 4 near perfect gyroscopes in orbit.
p89db TIL the band Blink-182 incorporated under the name “Poo Poo Butt, LLC.” because of how funny it would be to have their accountants, managers and attorneys having to say that over the phone every day.
PJgn TIL that in 1994 a Boy Scout named David Hahn attempted to make a neutron “gun,” and dangerously irradiated himself and his neighborhood in the process until his arrest.