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TIL Mister Rogers poured the wax that made the 100 billionth Crayola crayon.

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Q50p TIL: There is a edible fruit native to North America that has all but been forgotten and grows in the wild
BX1x TIL J.B.S. Haldane, in order to find out about the effects of pH on the body, drank hydrochloric acid and sat in an atmosphere of 6-7% carbon dioxide
LQNRd TIL Sharks first appeared around 420 million years ago, which means they were around before the dinosaurs
MeYXW TIL Keir Gilchrist, the actor who played the lead role in Atypical, is also the lead singer of grindcore band Whelm and death metal band Phalanx.
Br7PK TIL 200 years before Galileo, Bishop Bradwardine of Canterbury and other Oxford scholars developed "The Law of Falling Bodies" and discovered many pre-calculus equations ahead of their time. Bradwardine also developed theories on memory, as well as theology which inspired early protestants.