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MeYda TIL Leonardo Da Vinci is credited as being first to correctly explain Earthshine
m1R6Y TIL that until 1901 The Groom of the Stool was a male servant in the household of the English monarch who was responsible for assisting the king in his toileting needs.
gMde7 TIL tooth enamel is harder than steel. It's composed of mineralised calcium phosphate, which is the single hardest substance any living being can produce. Your tooth enamel is harder than a lobster's shell or a rhino's horn.
OGa1g TIL There are actually multiple definitions of 'real'. In 1972, Nobel Prize winning theoretical physicists, John Clauser, Anton Zeilinger and Alain Aspect showed that the 'local realism' view of the universe is likely to be false. Meaning: the world exists only when you're looking at it.
PYo5G TIL that Ada Lovelace - a woman born in 1815 was the first to recognize that computers are more than just adding machines. She was co-responsible for the creation of the 'Analytical Engine' and is widely recognized as the world’s first Computer Programmer.