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TIL of Stephen Hawking's gravestone, in there says "HERE LIES WHAT WAS MORTAL OF STEPHEN HAWKING 1942-2018" and there is a formula that states the temperature of a black hole is inversely proportional to it's mass.

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loG7B TIL of South Korean Pastor Chun Ki-won who orchestrated the escape of over 1,200 North Koreans. North Koreans caught in China are immediately deported back to North Korea; so Chun Ki-won smuggled them thousands of miles to Thailand where they can safely claim asylum.
ADe9l TIL on Jan, 31, 2007, Boston PD mistook LED placards depicting 'The Moonites' for city wide bomb threat.
VM6xm TIL that Pope Innocent IV (1243-1254) was probably the first pope who used personal arms.
oRVvR TIL Dancing mania was a social phenomenon that occurred primarily in mainland Europe between the 14th and 17th centuries. It involved groups of people dancing erratically, sometimes thousands at a time until they broke their ribs and subsequently died.
VM9Lm TIL Charles Dickens' final novel, "The Mystery of Edwin Drood", was only half-finished when Dickens died. 3 years later, an American printer published a completed version which he claimed had been literally "ghost-written" by channeling Dickens' spirit - and it was praised by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle