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TIL that unicorns are mentioned 9 times in the Bible.

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5Ydr8 TIL Stephen Hawking’s ashes are buried beneath a memorial stone inscribed with his equation for the Hawking temperature of black holes. To commemorate his death, Hawking’s own words were beamed towards the nearest known black hole to Earth, about 3,500 light years away, by the European Space Agency
xVPQw TIL The original lightsaber prop used in Star Wars by Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker is inside the International Space Station and was flown by STS-120 last August 2007
167DW TIL Gregor Mendel's research into inheritance was largely ignored or misunderstood until Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns independently duplicated his works in 1900. Mendel's paper on plant hybridization had only been cited 3 times in the previous 35 years.
P1e9J TIL Much of the dialogue in the film "Fritz the Cat" was improvised or recorded on the streets of New York. For example, the director Ralph Bakshi went to a Harlem Bar with a tape recorder and spent hours talking to Black patrons and getting drunk with them while asking questions.
ak9b TIL On July 6th, 1944 Jackie Robinson was once ordered to move to the back of a bus while in uniform. Robinson refused and received a court martial. An army court found that Robinson was completely within his rights, and fully acquitted the future baseball star.