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TIL that Neptune was predicted to exist by mathematical calculations well before it was physically observed by telescopes

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rNLre TIL that Oprah Winfrey’s birth name was Orpah, named after a woman from the Bible, but nobody could pronounce it right, so it became Oprah.
VMbbG TIL that the myth of Prometheus having his liver eaten daily actually has some scientific basis, as the liver can regrow itself
Wk0WB TIL Nazi physicists rejected Einstein's theory of relativity as "Jewish science"
R7D8 TIL that when challenged to use the word horticulture in a sentence, Dorothy Parker famously said: ‘you can lead a horticulture but you cannot make her think’
16RoO TIL Kitum Cave, Kenya, believed to be the source of Ebola and Marburg, two of the deadliest diseases known to man. An expedition was staged by the US military in the 1990s in an attempt to identify the vector species presumably residing in the cave. It is one of the most dangerous places on Earth