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TIL that Stephen Hawking hosted a party for time travelers, but no one came. he sent the invites out after the event with the thought that anyone who could time travel would go back and show up to the party

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MeBDV TIL: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas authored a legal opinion that no other Justice signed on to arguing that the 1st Amendment should not protect anyone under 18 or non-citizens.
694RW TIL that a Beatles knockoff, Los Shakers, were one of the most successful and influential bands of the 1960s in Argentina and Uruguay. The band imitated the Beatles’ looks, music, changed genres as the Beatles did, spearheaded the “Uruguayan invasion”, and even sang mostly in English
LQBj0 TIL a man who survived a jump from the Golden Gate Bridge but broke his back on impact was saved from drowning by a sea lion who kept him afloat until rescuers could reach him.
8aZKb TIL that at one point the Chicago River was so dirty from the city’s waste that it made the water from Lake Michigan undrinkable. To remedy this Chicago reversed the direction of its river away from the lake and toward the Mississippi River
e0Mm5 TIL while some countries struggle to fulfill government pension obligations, the Government Pension Fund of Norway currently holds over $1 trillion in assets.