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TIL Modern scientific methods came about as a result of an argument whether adding the milk first to the tea is better

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jNjWE TIL that the Berlin Wall was torn down by mistake. East Germany’s new spokesman, Günter Schabowski, accidentally implied the wall would be taken down, which caused citizens to rush the wall. The East German government decided it would be worse to try to stop them, and allowed the wall to come down.
OoP9Y Today I learned the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novel Maus also co-created the Garbage Pail Kids.
oBQmA TIL the first recorded instance of human flight is of a Chinese prince named Yuan Huangtou, who was forced to participate in an experiment in which he was strapped to a kite and flown off a tower.
W7VM8 TIL: Tupac Shakur accidentally shot and killed a 6 year-old boy (while famous)
p8yGG TIL there's a debate about whether math was invented or discovered. Even though math is used to measure and predict and model, it's debated whether math is inherent to the universe or if math is just something we came up with to describe/measure/predict natural phenomenon.