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TIL Although reapectful of eachother The Mythbusters (Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman) aren't friends and don't get along.

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9Yoyr TIL that when Isaac Newton was removed from school due to his interest in personal pursuits rather than studies, his mother tried to make him a farmer. Newton's hatred for farming and some persuasion from a schoolmaster led him to finish school aged 18 and enter Cambridge University a year later.
ADBM4 TIL about Microtargeting where machine-learning algorithms ingest large amounts of voter data to divide the electorate into narrow segments and predict which individual voters are best target to persuade or turn out in an election
mnEo TIL there is a tree whose fruit smells and tastes like peanut butter.
WXp9 TIL that in 2011, Two farmers fed up with bribe demands dumped over 40 live snakes in a local tax office in India
YpZOG TIL when Sega of America was localizing the first Sonic the Hedgehog game, they had to create a canonical backstory for him compiled in "The Sonic Bible". He was a poor hedgehog from Nebraska named Sonny. His dad died because of toxic waste and his friend Dr Robotnik turned evil after eating an egg.