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TIL that on June 15, 2018, Stephen Hawking’s ashes were interred in Westminster Abbey between Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin. During the ceremony, the European Space Agency honored him by beaming a recording of his voice toward the nearest known black hole, which will take 3,500 years to arrive.

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6EOOQ TIL that high use of social media, television, and computers by adolescents is associated with increased depression; however, video gaming is not associated with depression.
JvrB TIL: In Uxbridge, Massachusetts (36 miles southwest of Boston), the local police department has requested that people STOP POOPING ON TRAINS from overpasses.
Bgr9K TIL that the movie Soylent Green was set in 2022.
gMmK7 TIL: Jon Brower Minnoch was an American man who, at his peak weight, was the heaviest human being ever recorded, weighing 1,400 lb (635 kilograms; 100 stone). This additionally makes him the largest known primate ever to have lived, exceeding the upper estimated size of Gigantopithecus.
yQYB8 TIL that a man tracked down a kid and strangles him over Call of Duty.