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TIL after Steve Martin hosted SNL for the first time, his father published a negative review in a local realtor newsletter he worked at, saying, "his performance did nothing to further his career."

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RdE9 TIL that in 1907 a medical doctor tried to prove the existence of the human soul by weighing people at the moment of their death.
R79oj TIL Goldbach's Conjecture asks if every even integer is the sum of two prime numbers. It's deemed a "million buck problem" because its solution would advance mathematics by a great margin, although it remains unsolved since 1742
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