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W75Ld TIL that Harvard University was founded before calculus was even invented. Harvard was established in 1636, while Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz developed calculus in the late 1600s.
VBGYk TIL that on January 19, 1876 chunks of red meat fell from the sky in a 100-by-50-yard (90-by-45-meter) area near Olympia Springs in Bath County, Kentucky. The incident was called The Kentucky meat shower.
epAK5 TIL dub reggae music was made by mistake when King Tubby, Bunny Lee and others were at the Treasure Islands studio and the engineer, while mixing, forgot to put the voice on a track.
4XYP6 TIL: The Hillary Step on Mt Everest was destroyed in the 2015 Himalayan earthquake.
apEM TIL Prince covered Radiohead’s “Creep” at Coachella in 2008, and a mobile phone video of it was uploaded to Youtube. Prince quickly made Youtube remove it. After finding out about the blocking, Radiohead’s lead singer Thom Yorke said “Well, tell him to unblock it. It’s our song.”