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TIL that Continental Drift was considered pseudoscience despite the evidence to the contrary, and was openly ridiculed by the scientific community

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6EvaZ TIL that the largest amount of babies a woman has given birth to in their lifetime is 69. Mrs. Vassilyeva, who lived in Shuya, Russia in the early 1700s, gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets, and four sets of quadruplets: 27 pregnancies and 69 children in total.
6E45X TIL William "Wild Bill" Douglas, the longest-serving Supreme Court Justice, argued that the Vietnam War was illegal, that we should be able to sue on behalf of the environment, and that contraception bans violated our Right to Privacy. Later, the FBI planted marijuana on his property to entrap him.
wLGE1 TIL that Einstein was born missing part of the brain that influences speech and did not speak until the age of three. However, his parietal lobe, responsible for math and spatial recognition, was abnormally large
pO6Z TIL humans are unlikely to sink entirely into quicksand due to the higher density of the fluid: quicksand has a density of about 2 grams per milliliter, while human density is only about 1 gram per milliliter. A human would descend about up to their waist, but no further.
e9n TIL In 1998 Venus and Serena Williams said they could beat any man ranked 200 or worse; both lost handedly to a man ranked #203, who smoked between the matches.