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TIL that Einstein and his wife once visited the enormous Mount Wilson Observatory with astronomer Edwin Hubble. When told that Hubble’s telescopes were revealing the ultimate shape of the universe, Einstein’s wife nonchalantly responded, “Well, my husband does that on the back of an old envelope.”

aw7eL TIL that after it's use in a 2007 gameshow, Men At Work were sued for copyright infringement as the flute lead of "Down Under" resembled a children's song from the 1930's. According to singer Colin Hay, the stress of the court case led to the death of his father and the band's flutist, Greg Ham.
n8PY TIL that there are people in Kenema,Sierra Leone, africa. that think EBOLA is a hoax created by Doctors to steal blood from patients and rioters are trying to break down the hospital gates and rescue the patients inside. police are using tear gas and live bullets to disperse the rioters
BrLOr TIL that in the original opening sequence of The Simpsons, when Maggie is scanned in the check-out, the cash register briefly reads $847.63 which was the monthly cost of raising a baby in America in 1989.
je8j TIL human DNA is 50% the same as bananas
OG55a TIL the second and third groups of people to circumnavigate the globe did so unwillingly. They were Spanish expeditions that sailed the Atlantic and Pacific to the East Indies and the Philippines, captured by the Portuguese, and taken captive to Lisbon by way of the Indian and Atlantic.