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TIL that a depressed Manchester teen used several fake online personas to convince his best friend to murder him, and after surviving the attack, he became the first person in UK history to be charged with inciting their own murder.

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ZpPaY TIL: Rick Moranis had to act in slow motion during the filming of “Little Shop of Horrors”, acting at 12 frames per second
R7R9w Let’s say you’re doing 100 mph in a car and suddenly a downed tree, stopped the car, or person appears in the road up ahead and you need to slam on the brakes. How much more dangerous is that situation than when you’re doing 70 mph? Your intuition might tell you that 100 mph is only 30% more than 70 mph. But as this video shows, the important factor in stopping a car (or what happens to the car when it collides with something else) does not speed but energy, which increases at the square of speed. In other words, going from 70 mph to 100 mph more than doubles your energy…and going from 55 to 100 more than triples it.
D1RxD TIL that in the aftermath of the Christchurch mosque shootings, street gangs sent members to mosques around the country to help protect the victims during prayer time
Aryn TIL French Queen Marie Antoinette had a fully functioning peasant village built on the grounds of Versailles. She loved strolling the village in simple shepherdess garb pretending to live a simple life milking cows or sheep, which were carefully maintained and cleaned by the servants.
yQ7l TIL Sir Isaac Newton’s self proclaimed greatest achievement was his lifelong celibacy.