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TIL A popularly held belief that Albert Einstein was bad at school is a huge myth. In fact he was the class topper several times.

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epV7E TIL On the soundtrack to Batman Begins, Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard named all the tracks after the scientific names of Bats and Tracks 4 - 9 Barbastella, Artibeus, Tadarida, Macrotus, Antrozous, and Nycterus, spell out BATMAN.
7rdmX TIL we all have blind spots in our vision. Cover your left eye in this vision test to "see it" yourself.
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