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TIL that In 1277 Pope John XXI’s declared the concept of ‘laws of nature’ to be heresy because they conflict with God’s omnipotence . Pope John was killed by the effects of the law of gravity a few months later when the roof of his palace fell in on him.

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RvaQ TIL that “Interstellar” has the most footage ever shot using 15/70mm IMAX cameras for a film, and, due to the film industry’s rapid conversion to digital projection formats, will potentially be the last feature film ever to be projected on 15/70mm IMAX film.
Z8dMo Till scientists solved the complex problem of growing seedless watermelon without seeds in the 1990's eating watermelon was less enjoyable. They achieved this feat with a complicated cross-pollination process, thus creating a new commercial fruit market.
erb TIL that Abraham Lincoln did not trust himself to carry or be around knives because he feared he would spontaneously kill himself.
amdZ TIL a Chinese man was so convinced he was Jesus’s younger brother that he started a war called The Taiping Rebellion that lasted 15 years and killed at least 10 million people.
d8D8 TIL hemophilia is prominent in European royalty, because royal families engaged in copious amounts of incest, spreading the hemophilia gene