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TIL the value of Pi could be approximated with stunning accuracy by dropping a bunch of matches on a piece of paper.

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PQAe TIL that 3 suicide bombers prematurely exploded because the bombs were set on daylight savings time.
8ag0G TIL 43% of NHS’ (UK) doctors are Indian or of Indian origin
ZKkR TIL David Sarnoff, founder of RCA, fought so hard to prevent FM Radio from succeeding that the inventor of FM Radio, Edwin Howard Armstrong, commit suicide because of emotional and financial distress…brought on by RCA lawsuits.
6EBMQ TIL Stephen Hawking once sent his PhD student away with a very hard problem – finding exact rotating black hole solutions of Einstein’s equations with a cosmological constant – and was stunned when he came back a few days later with the solution
GYd1Q TIL Earth's largest waterfall is... underwater. In the Denmark Strait, a warm sea collides with a cold sea, pushing the colder water over a very tall ridge — for nearly TWO MILES (3.2km). That's almost 4x longer than the biggest waterfall on land! From the surface, you wouldn't notice at all.