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TIL Sir Isaac Newton was obsessed with the occult, and developed the theory of gravity based on occult belief in “action at a distance”

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wo0j7 TIL that the concept of “brain death” is controversial and not universally accepted. While most of the medical community defines brain death as the irreversible cessation of all brain activity, some argue that it’s a social and legal construct rather than a definitive biological state.
yQyLl TIL in 1934 Josef Stalin lost re-election to General Secretary of the Communist Party 292 against, and only 3 for. 290 of the votes were deleted from the official records, leaving him the winner by 1 vote.
7rJKL TIL that in response to the cholera outbreak of 1854, Chicago engineers decided to install a sewage system by raising the grade of the city by up to 14 feet. That is, they literally put buildings on stilts and buried the new sewer pipes under the buildings.
Y7Drv TIL some plants like kiwifruit, wild taro, pineapples have microscopic sharp crystalline needles called raphides.
44AN TIL the FBI made an investigation against Martin Luther King Jr. and after dropping the case the information they found out won’t be released to the public until 2027.