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TIL the NBC sitcom ‘Friends’ was originally written from rejected Seinfeld scripts…

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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.
Z8BpQ TIL Ann Hodges was hit and injured by a meteorite, the only person so known
9wYKr TIL about a "remittance man," who were young British emigrants paid by their families to live outside of Britain, usually in Canada or the U.S., on the expectation that they not return home. This practice began in the 1880s and continued well into the early 20th century.
Z5Qv TIL Peter Berg & “Breaking Bad” creator Vince Gilligan wrote a script titled “Tonight he Comes” about a superhero who could not make love because his ejaculate would kill a woman. Vince Gilligan left to create “Breaking Bad”, and Berg took over the original script, which eventually became “Hancock.”
l71Ar TIL In many studies, children with myopic parents have been shown to be more likely myopic compared with those with non-myopic parents. However, There seems to be no genetic linkage between low and high myopia or degree of vision problems