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TIL that Simon Baron-Cohen, a well-known and influential scientist in the field of autism, and the comedian Sacha Baron Cohen are cousins

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Lky5Q TIL about Alfred Russel Wallace, a British naturalist who thought up the theory of evolution by natural selection. After recording his expedition findings in the mid 1800’s, Wallace sent his work to his confidant Charles Darwin for a second opinion. Their first paper was a joint effort.
wLlAE TIL Babe Ruth returned to Boston for his last MLB season, playing for the Boston Braves (now the Atlanta Braves)
QXEM TIL Singer Tom Waits has a song called “The Fall of Troy”, and Post-hardcore band “The Fall of Troy” have a song called “Tom Waits”
BrvRe TIL that the earliest known depiction of Christ is a piece of Roman graffiti mockingly depicting Jesus as a crucified donkey
wo0oM TIL The mass of trees and plants comes mostly (95%) from carbon in the air, not from the soil. Through photosynthesis they extract carbon from CO2 and use it to build their structure and mass.