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TIL A man hijacked a plane to force the Pope to reveal the 3rd secret of Fátima

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YpPrG TIL that modern genetics was discovered/invented in 1856-63 by an Austrian monk who overturned millennia of misunderstanding by simply running a scientific experiment (on 28,000 plants); yet his work was ignored for 40 years and nearly lost.
4X1QN TIL To compose a picture of a black hole in 2019, 5 petabytes of data were used, which took half a ton of hard drives. Part of this data was physically moved by plane. This allowed a transfer of 14 gigabytes per second, which was faster than if data would be transferred through the internet.
8aaGK TIL that Mark Ruffalo discovered that he had a tumor after he had a dream about a tumor growing in the left side of his head
69XlW TIL that CarMax was founded by the now-defunct consumer electronics company, Circuit City
6rkJ TIL an Indian man was fraudulently declared dead by his uncle. He fought with the Indian government for nineteen years to prove that he is alive.