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TIL The movie "Bad Boys" was originally supposed to star Dana Carvey and Jon Lovitz

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4XPEw TIL: The story that Newton was hit on the head by an apple is almost certainly apocryphal. All Newton himself ever said was that the idea of gravity came to him as he sat in a contemplative mood, and was occasioned by the fall of an apple.
ADbvg TIL With the introduction of small portable solar scopes, hydrogen alpha and calcium filters has now become very popular. H-alpha is in the red end of the visible solar spectrum and it allows one to see solar prominences, filaments, plages and occasional flares on the Sun
166Pd TIL about Cyclones Katrina and Victor-Cindy, a cyclone (hurricane for the Americans) in the Southern Hemisphere that maintained its circulation for over fifty days, crossed over three basins (South Pacific -> Australian Region -> Southwest Indian Ocean), and used three names.
WkvXA TIL a Christian saint offered himself as a human sacrifice and was buried alive. He was later dug up and found to be still alive, but he uttered such words describing what of the afterlife he had seen and how it involved no heaven or hell, that he was ordered to be covered up again.
xVZ75 TIL that NBA Hall of Famer Bill Russell, who was born on February 12, 1934, had the most championships in NBA history with 11 titles, which he had in 1957, 1959-1966, and 1968-1969 all with the Boston Celtics, and played 13 seasons in the NBA