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TIL That not just one, but two wars were started because someone threw someone out of a window in Prague.

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Lywd TIL that Leonard Nimoy (the man that is famous for playing Spock) performed a slightly bizarre and extremely campy song called The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins. It was followed by a campaign to cast him as Aragorn in a live-action rendition of Lord of the Rings.
DGrJ TIL even though Calculus is often taught starting only at the college level, mathematicians have shown that it can be taught to kids as young as 5, suggesting that it should be taught not just to those who pursue higher education, but rather to literally everyone in society.
nWEGB TIL The publication of "Structure of Scientific Revolutions" in 1962 by Thomas S. Kuhn was a landmark event in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science
ojL8 TIL that in 1971, on the day before Bangladesh officially won its Liberation War, Pakistani soldiers kidnapped the brightest Bengali intellectuals–writers, philosophers, historians, mathematicians, physicists, poets–and slaughtered them in the middle of the night.
Oob67 TIL that the rarest insect in the world is the Lord Howe Island stick insect. It was believed to be extinct since 1920 until some were found again in 2001. In 2006 there were only about 50 of them, but only 2 years later their population increased to 700!