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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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d87Q TIL when Cypress Hill’s “Insane in the Brain” is played directly into a dead squid’s nervous system it changes colour to the beat.
G5J7 TIL Pope Formosus’ body was exhumed and put on trial, where a deacon was appointed to answer for Formosus. The corpse was found guilty, stripped of its sacred vestments, deprived of three fingers, clad in the garb of a layman, and quickly buried; it was then re-exhumed and thrown in the Tiber.
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