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TIL That the schizophrenia of one man is the root of jazz music, and without it, jazz may never have existed

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0na5 TIL that a doctor introduced hand-washing at his clinic in 1846 because he noticed a connection between women dying of childbed fever and the autopsies doctors performed before delivering babies, and that most didn’t believe him, and he lost his job, and later died of sepsis in an asylum.
OoN7g TIL Isaac Newton formulated laws of optics, gravity and calculus in his early 20s while in lockdown from the plague.
7AxX TIL that The Pirate Bay tried buying their own island in hopes of making their own country with no copyright laws.
mxlgy TIL in 2013 the Pirate Bay faked moving its servers to North Korea. Various news outlets including NBC and ‘Business Insider’ reported the event as factual, without ever updating that it was a hoax.
OogBY TIL that Tom Hardy was addicted to crack and alcohol in his mid 20s. At one point he said that he was 'out of control' on drink and drugs before he turned his life around, and was lucky that he did not contract HIV while he was at his lowest.