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TIL of the Continuum hypothesis : An hypothesis that has been proven unprovable under current mathematics.

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jNwGE Til About the Babe Ruth Story, a 1948 biopic of the eponymous baseball star that is considered to be the worst baseball film ever made. In it, Babe Ruth is portrayed as miraculously healing several children and a dog with his baseball antics.
LQBr9 TIL that men can actually be allergic to their own orgasms
E8xd TIL: We might have had cassettes , answering machines and VHS neatly 60 years earlier if not for paranoia by Bell Labs /AT&T executives.
GAmAE TIL butterflies are often unintentionally drawn to look like they're dead
d89Rj TIL that in 2018, a man ruptured his throat by trying to trap a high-force sneeze. With nowhere to escape, the pressure ripped through the soft tissue in his neck. Trapping a sneeze could also damage the ears or even rupture a brain aneurysm.