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TIL that Vermont (42% gun ownership rate) had the lowest rate of gun murders in 2010: only 2

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XKrr TIL that Isaac Newton’s “Principia Mathematica” almost wasn’t published by the Royal Society of London because they had spent their whole budget on a book about fish, called “The History of Fishes”. The cost was instead covered by astronomer Edmund Halley
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oRk1A TIL that when Weird Al was developing The Weird Al Show, Seth MacFarlane pitched him an animated segment, which Al didn't go with. The segment was later developed into Family Guy
DQ7Zj TIL of the 6 Degrees of Separation theory: The idea that all humans are connected with 6 connections or less
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