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TIL Stalin said “Death solves all problems — no man, no problem.”

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ZBvB TIL Hans Asperger, who identified autism in 1944, once said, “It seems that for success in science and art, a dash of autism is essential. The necessary ingredient may be an ability to turn away from the everyday world, to rethink a subject with originality so as to create in new untrodden ways.”.
a8rVb TIL that the director of the last 4 Harry Potter movies (David Yates) is former Arsenal footballer Theo Walcott's uncle.
GwVj TIL there have been serious scientific attempts to study whether or not our “reality” is, in fact, a computer simulation a la “The Matrix”
6E6W TIL that according to Bart Ehrman, Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at UNC Chapel Hill, at least 11 of the 27 books in the New Testament are forgeries- many of which were written by “early Christian leaders trying to settle theological feuds.”
5EM9 TIL 2,4-dinitrophenol, a widely used chemical in industry, is also a powerful weight loss agent with severe side effects. In some people, it can burn food energy so fast that their body isn’t able to expel the heat quickly enough, thus causing them to die by literally burning from the inside out.