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TIL that Robert Hooke has been called “England’s Leonardo.” He discovered microorganisms and a law of elasticity; observed the rotation of planets; revolutionized city planning; and presaged theories of optics, gravity, and evolution.

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wXQJ TIL that Christopher Hitchens described the experience of viewing Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Inglorious Basterds’ as similar to “sitting in the dark having a great pot of warm piss emptied very slowly over your head.”
QJdaE TIL Timothy McVeigh was a witness to the Waco massacre in 1993. Two years later, on the second anniversary of the last day of the Waco siege, McVeigh set off a bomb outside of a government building in Oklahoma, as an act against what he saw as a tyrannical government.
yQgYw TIL there was once a Theme Park owned by People's Rep. of China called Splendid China (Florida). It was shut down in Dec 2003, 10 years after opening.
xVp40 TIL: Ernest Hemingway ended up being quarantined for most of the Summer with his wife and his mistress in 1926
x6Vn1 TIL about project plowshare, a US program to find peaceful uses for nuclear weapons including excavating dig sites using nuclear weapons