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TIL That right before Christopher Reeve’s surgery to reattach his skull to his spine Robin Williams ran in saying he was a proctologist and going to give him a rectal exam causing him to laugh for the first time since his accident.

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woXoY TIL Newton's phrase about standing on the shoulders of giants dates back to at least 1159. John of Salisbury wrote then that "we see more and farther than our predecessors, not because we have keener vision or greater height, but because we are lifted up and borne aloft on their gigantic stature."
8a0Z4 TIL about a Russian woman who gave birth to a total of 69 children, making her the most prolific mother ever.
BrrXe TIL two of the greatest composers of their time, Bach and Handel, despite living near each other but never meeting, were both blinded by the same quack traveling eye doctor
LDGQ TIL William Herschel discovered Uranus and two of its major moons, Titania and Oberon and discovered two moons of Saturn which were Mimas and Enceladus. He was also the first person who discovered infrared radiation. In addition, he composed twenty-four symphonies, and many other musical pieces.
E1M7w TIL The Queen has been the face of so many currencies and has reigned for so long that it is possible to observe her aging process on Commonwealth banknotes.