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TIL The last month of the year used to be February

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Z8AAp TIL of Stephen Hawking's gravestone, in there says "HERE LIES WHAT WAS MORTAL OF STEPHEN HAWKING 1942-2018" and there is a formula that states the temperature of a black hole is inversely proportional to it's mass.
Wb49 TIL when Benjamin Franklin died he left the city of Boston $4000 in a trust to earn interest for 200 years. By 1990 the trust was worth over $5 million and was used to help establish a trade school that became the Franklin Institute of Boston.
OoKM7 TIL Richard the Lionheart, King of England, barely spoke a lick of English and collectively only spent about 6 months in England.
oBV7r TIL that Christopher Booker shows that basically all stories in fiction can be generalized into seven basic plot types. He worked on his book "the Seven Basic Plots" for 34 years before releasing it.
yQ4Ll TIL that after 2 centuries, historians have not been able to identify Beethoven's Immortal Beloved. 'Ever thine. Ever mine. Ever ours.' Two centuries later, historians still haven't agreed on the identity of the woman who inspired the composer's famed lines.