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TIL Morgan Freeman converted his 124 Acre Ranch into a bee sanctuary in an effort to help bee populations

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awbKo TIL that the Tour de France has a long history of cheating cyclists.
b9bnZ TIL a working flying car was made in 1949. The reason it was unsuccessful was due to a lack of demand.
kOwb7 TIL of John Von Neumann, a mathematician polymat that invented computers (the architecture in every digital computer today), a precursor theory of DNA without having been a biologist, played a pivotal in creating the Atom bomb, and laid out the mathematical framework for quantum mechanics.
R5gQ8 TIL that the "moving sofa problem" is an unsolved problem in mathematics. The "sofa constant" is the size of the largest object that can fit through a hallway with a right turn, and is somewhere between 2.2195 and 2√2
YPwP TIL Mr. Rogers’ car was stolen, only to have it return by the thieves with a note saying “If we’d known it was yours, we never would have taken it”.