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TIL Hugh Everett III invented the "many worlds" interpretation of quantum mechanics, and asked to be thrown in trash after death.

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OWmY TIL Mr. Rogers always mentioned out loud that he was feeding his fish because a young blind viewer asked him to do so. She wanted to make sure the fish were OK.
WMa4 TIL the Supreme Court in 1964 ruled in favor of Mary Hamilton who protested the southern norm of calling a white witness “Mr.” or"Miss" and a nonwhite witness by his/her first name
5VWn TIL one of the earliest pioneers in parachuting was a woman named Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse, who jumped out of a perfectly good hydrogen balloon in 1799 and descended to safety 900 meters below.
YpyDx TIL: In 2010, a boa constrictor was shown to have reproduced asexually via parthenogenesis. This is only the third genetically confirmed case of consecutive virgin births of viable offspring from a single female within any vertebrate lineage.
nePbP TIL that the founder of chiropractic says he received it from "the other world"; that the tenets of chiropractic were passed along to him by a doctor who had died 50 years previously.