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99QM TIL We have technology to extract 3D model from a single photo
5BnD TIL in 1864, George Boole a Mathematician and Logician, walked two miles in the drenching rain and lectured wearing his wet clothes. He became ill, developing a severe cold and high fever.His wife believed that remedies should resemble their cause, so she poured water on him, he died that year at 49
vP6E8 TIL when guitarist Carlos Santana heard the song “Rumbalero” by his son, Salvador, he had to Shazam it to find out it was his own son's music as he didn’t recognize it. Carlos then requested permission from his son to re-record the song for his 2021 album and his son thought he was kidding at first.
BgrrW TIL that Wint-O-Green Life Savers make blue sparks in the dark when you bite on them because of "triboluminescence," or light resulting from something being smashed.
nako TIL that a ‘micromort’ is a unit given to the amount of times a person will die out of a million tries (for example, going skydiving is 7 micromorts, meaning that there is a 7/1,000,000 chance that a person will die after a trip)