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TIL Edgar Allen Poe wrote an essay about the universe begining from a “single originating particle” 80 years before the idea of The Big Bang.

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e0Q5k TIL any Canadian with a physical or mental disability who qualifies for the disability tax credit (DTC) is eligible for a registered disability savings plan (RDSP) and up to $90,000 in lifetime government grants.
Z5mo TIL parents in New York who don’t believe in diapers are teaching their babies to poop in the sink or on the street
wLkBP TIL that France granted the US permanent, rent-free possession of the American cemetery in Normandy, which contains the remains of 9,387 fallen troops plus a memorial to 1,557 killed there whose remains were either not found or not identified.
Oo9dR TIL When six-foot-eight Brad Garrett starred as Jackie Gleason in a 2002 biopic, his costars had to wear boots with 7 inch lifts to look normal.
1aNEr TIL the most abundant vertebrate genus in the world is not chickens but probably the bristlemouth fish numbering in maybe quadrillions of members. Basically these tiny fish are everywhere deep in the ocean and even gave strange false bottom readings by sensors of ocean depths when first discovered.