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TIL that Stephen Hawking was born exactly 300 years after the death of Galileo - today would have been Stephen’s 83rd birthday

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JY8bj TIL the nursery rhyme "Mary had a Little Lamb" was written about a real girl named Mary Sawyer. She lived in Boston and her lamb followed her to school one day in 1816 when she was 10-years-old.
Jjom TIL in 1985, the writers of Sesame Street decided that the adult characters needed to be shown to believe Big Bird about Snuffleupagus due to concerns that if they did not, children would fear that adults/parents would not believe them about an adult abusing them if they told.
6gl TIL there is only one video of Mark Twain in existence and it was shot by Thomas Edison. [1:47] (X-Post from /r/videos)
vPjlx TIL that American milk is pasteurized using a high-temperature short-time pasteurization, that gives a shelf life of 7 to 10 days. Europe however, uses an ultra-high-heat pasteurization which results in about a 3 month shelf life.
PYWNZ TIL that Leonard Adleman said "Well, it's going to be the least important paper I've ever been on" when accepting to be a part of development of the RSA algorithm.