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TIL Isaac Newton created the colour wheel before the invention of photography.

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681l TIL When Hugh Hefner asked teenage model Barbie Benton out on a date, she was hesitant and said “I don’t know, I’ve never been out with anyone over 24”. The 42 year old Hefner replied, “That’s OK neither have I”.
epjkD TIL that Winston Churchill was the 1953 recipient for the Nobel Prize in Literature
rRNke TIL: At 25 year old, Matthew Roberts set off to find his biological parents. Only to discover his biological father was Charles Manson - Looking into the mirror after being told and immediately seeing the resemblance.
bGy7 TIL that in the film The Dark Knight, the man who shouted “we are not intimidated by thugs,” to the Joker, was actually Patrick Leahy, the senior senator from Vermont and a self-confessed batman fan. He has appeared in a cameo role for every other Batman film since Batman Forever.
rnly TIL the engineer of the Kalka-Shimla Railway in India killed himself after miscalculation of where two halves of a tunnel would meet