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TIL Astronomer Rudolf Wolf tried to estimate pi using a needle experiment. He conducted experiments throwing the needle 5000 times, obtaining a value of 3.1596

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9YkAr TIL the town of Slaughter, TX, had never had a homicide
mBZp TIL author Christopher Hitchens was called to the Vatican to give evidence against Mother Teresa’s beatification. He said, “It was by talking to her that I discovered, and she assured me, that she wasn’t working to alleviate poverty. She was working to expand the number of Catholics.”
DQple TIL that public primary schools in Britain are required to hold a 'daily act of collective worship' that is 'broadly Christian in nature.'
loxaN TIL The town of Salem, New Jersey once held a trial against tomatoes in 1820 because of the widespread belief they were poisonous. The case ended after Colonel Robert Gibbon Johnson ate a basket of tomatoes without ill consequence.
Ool8e TIL Bumble Bees deliberately damage plants to force them to flower early, thus providing food for them up to 30 days before the plant would naturally flower