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TIL one of the US senators from Idaho is named “Mike Crapo”

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b6nnZ TIL when Marie Curie fell into a depression, Einstein wrote her a letter telling her he felt lucky to have met her, and, referring to the newspaper articles constantly attacking her, he advised her “to simply not read that hogwash, but rather leave it to the reptile for whom it has been fabricated.”
Pk9E TIL there is an AI called Melomics which has written over 1,000,000,000 songs since July 2012 without human intervention
5OPD TIL Cinderella’s Castle at the Magic Kingdom uses a technique known as forced perspective, meaning it gets smaller as it gets taller, giving it the appearance of being much bigger than it really is.
oRdyK TIL there were just 5 surviving longbows from medieval England known to exist before 137 whole longbows (and 3,500 arrows) were recovered from the wreck of the Mary Rose in 1980 (a ship of Henry VIII's navy that capsized in 1545). The bows were in excellent finished condition & have been preserved.
eYG5 TIL that As part of David Hasslehoff’s divorce settlement, he kept possession of the nickname “Hoff” and the catchphrase “Dont Hassle the Hoff”.