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TIL That Sir Isaac Newton died a virgin at the age of 84

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9YKJQ TIL that "A Fistful of Dollars", the first of the Man with no Name trilogy, was an unlicensed remake of Akira Kurasawa's film "Yojimbo". Kurasawa filed a lawsuit, then settled with Sergio Leone out of court with 15% of international receipts and over $100,000.
x6JZg TIL in an early version of his dictionary, Noah Webster defined "cat" with the entry: "The domestic cat needs no description. It is a deceitful animal, and when enraged, extremely spiteful."
XDWX TIL In 2009, a retired policeman called Geraint Woolford was admitted to Abergale Hospital in north Wales and ended up next to another retired policeman called Geraint Woolford. The men weren’t related, had never met and were the only two people in the UK called Geraint Woolford.
Wkb54 TIL that the city of Pittsburgh, PA, dumps raw, untreated sewag into the Ohio river.
G51G TIL in 2008 - before his actual death - 4chan started a prank claiming that Steve Jobs had died of a heart attack. The prank caught so much attention that it actually cause Apple’s value in stock to fall by 10% for a day