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TIL Eric Idle of Monty Python responded to physicst Brian Cox's criticism of his "Galaxy song" by creating a sketch where Cox gets run over by Stephen Hawking

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rN4KM TIL there have been at least 600 polar bears that have made the swim/ice drift to Iceland since the settlement of the island.
QJm7M TIL Dr. James Simpson, who first showed the effects of chloroform on humans in 1847. He sat with his assistants nightly trying chemicals. After they collapsed and came to after using chloroform, he recognized its anesthetic potential. He nicknamed the first baby delivered by chloroform "Anesthesia."
Q8JL TIL that dogs years are not 7:1 to human years, as it is generally thought.
wL1VJ TIL that when a new IKEA was built in Valladolid, Spain, in 2011, the company held an online poll on how to name the road leading to the store. The majority voted for: "Calle Me falta un tornillo" ("I'm missing a screw Road"), and IKEA and the municipal administration named the road accordingly.
mxGYo TIL in 1976, Barry Kidston, a 23-year-old chemistry graduate student in Maryland, US, synthesized MPPP with MPTP as a major impurity, and self-injected the result. Within three days he began exhibiting symptoms of Parkinson's disease