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TIL Thomas Young, a brilliant polymath, is known as "The Last Man Who Knew Everything." Some of his contributions include discovering the wave theory of light, describing elasticity, inventing the tuning method of musical instruments and many more....

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M1lm TIL in 1967 the Prime Minister of Australia mysteriously disappeared while swimming. He was pronounced dead 2 days later but no body has ever been found.
W7GEA TIL about the Murchison Murders (1929-30). An escaped convict (allegedly) killed 3 people and disposed of the remains using a method divulged to him by a novelist who was struggling to develop the plot of his story because the technique would not leave enough clues for the main character to follow.
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4k8kJ TIL that Quentin Tarantino wanted to make a Godzilla film of his own titled "Living Under the Rule of Godzilla".