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TIL Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica contained a simple calculation error that went unnoticed for 300 years.

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mxpEx TIL The world record for “Fastest Marathon In a Banana Suit” was set in January 2020 in Arizona with an official time of 2:41:27, which broke the previous record by six minutes.
pAMN TIL of HTTP 451 - a computer network code similar to 404 page not found - which tells a user if the content is legally blocked. It was named after the book Fahrenheit 451, where books are banned.
055 TIL that a gold medal won from the Olympics is worth about $494, a silver medal worth $260, and the bronze medal is worth $3.
mpXE TIL: After 18+ years marooned on an island, the real-life heroine the novel The Island of the Blue Dolphins died just 7 weeks after being rescued
aZ5J TIL of the NYC “Pizza Principle” which is a historically accurate “economic law” reported by The New York Times where the price of a slice of pizza has matched the price of a subway ride. It has been successfully used to predict the increase of subway fare on multiple ocassions.