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TIL that the official divorce complaint of Mary Louise Bell, wife of world-famous physicist Richard Feynman, was that "He begins working calculus problems in his head as soon as he awakens. He did calculus while driving in his car, while sitting in the living room, and while lying in bed at night."

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5RXk TIL that the Canadian province of Quebec is responsible for 75% of the world’s maple syrup production.
lZ85 TIL UB40’s “Tyler” is about Gary Tyler, who was sentenced to death at age 17 for a murder he didn’t commit, and even though his trial was ruled “fundamentally unfair”, is still serving jail time to date
wLom7 TIL that ginger ale is a popular drink when flying because of ideas about ginger's soothing effect on stomachs, despite the fact that most ginger ale sold on airplanes contains little to no real ginger.
EgDWP TIL Ronald Reagan instituted the deregulation of advertising to children in the 1980s. This allowed companies to market as much as they wanted to kids, leading to an explosion of new toys, cartoons, junk food, and breakfast cereals.
kJpx4 TIL Earth has had several temporary moons