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TIL John Napier, the Scottish mathematician who discovered logarithms, was the 4th great-grandfather of the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton

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GYk45 TIL that the Tetris theme song is actually called “Korobeiniki,” which was created in 1861.
6ZEX TIL ravens have been observed calling wolves to the site of dead animals so that they will open the carcass and leave the scraps more accessible to them.
ANLGd TIL that in 2013, the British singer-songwriter Newton Faulkner streamed the recording of his album live for 5 weeks. His home studio in East London was set up with 4 cameras, to allow fans to follow every detail of recording the album – with no producer or engineer, only Faulkner and a few guests.
Qg8d TIL Adam Rainer is the only person in recorded history to have been both a dwarf and a giant. He was 4 ft tall at age 18, and 7 ft 8 at the time of his death at age 50.
E1690 TIL the Bon Jovi song “August 7, 4:15”’was written about the strange death of his tour manager’s daughter who was just 6. She was found at the side of the road just a few houses away from her house. Her cause of death was blunt force trauma but what killed her remains speculation today.