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6ExBJ TIL There is a diving beetle named after Stephen Colbert because, according to the naming scientist, "Stephen shamelessly asked the science community to name something cooler than a spider to honor him."
GAYbG TIL: In 1937 the entirety of the Soviet Central Institute of Aerodynamics were arrested meaning that many WW2 planes were designed from prison
6mYW TIL almost everyone in Movie 43 was manipulated into being involved in it and many tried to get out of it
Q14M TIL That Robert Louis Stevenson wrote The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde while on a 6 day cocaine binge.
p8dxA TIL of Barbara Newhall Folett, a child genius born in 1914 who released her first novel at the age of 12, and her second when she was 14. At the age of 18 she married an unfaithful man and fell into depression. She vanished when she was 25, and was never seen again.