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TIL isaac newton and several other scientific gurus died virgins

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Q4RM TIL that the greater the airtime devoted to country music, the greater the white suicide rate. This effect is independent of divorce, southerness, poverty, and gun availability.
78Vop TIL that the oldest door in Rome, the Pantheon Gate, is over 2000 years old and weighs over a tone. Despite this, it is very well balanced and can actually be opened by one person.
Bg7YW TIL that if you drilled a hole through the center of the earth from Formosa Province in Argentina, you’d end up on the island of Formosa. This was not known when the two places were named in the 1500s.
0wYJN Today I Learned that Veggietales wasn't originally going to have vegetables as the characters. Phill Vischer simply needed character models that were easy to animate in the early days of computer animation. Vegetables didn’t require animating arms, legs, or hair like humans or animals would.