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TIL that the Big Bang Theory was first proposed by a Catholic Priest in 1927

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MeBJ0 TIL that the U.S. was one of the original 17 who signed the Treaty of the Metre (Convention du Mètre) and given two of the original forty cylinders that is know as the International Protoype Kilogram
RaA1 TIL Disney was sued by hyena researches for defamation of character because of their negative portrayal of hyenas in The Lion King.
M7kYa TIL of the Byzantine emperor Andronikos I Komnenos, ruling between 1081 and 1118. Due to his frequest mutilation and blinding of enemies he was given the epithet "Misophaes" - Hater of Sunlight
xVkE5 TIL the famous Windows XP background is a photo called "Bliss". The photo is completely unedited and is a real place in California.
kJWQE TiL that while primary endosymbiosis, which originated the plastids and the mitochondria, happened only once, secondary endosymbiosis happened several types, giving rise to many different, unrelated groups of algae that got their plastids by engulfing other eukaryotes that had engulfed bacteria!