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TIL that there was a rumor that Stephen Hawking would deliberately run over the toes of people he didn’t like. He denied this rumor by stating it was “A Malicious rumor” and “I’ll run over anyone who repeats it”.

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lobJa TIL the claim that Space Invaders caused a national 100-yen coin shortage in Japan in the late 70s is a myth. It was largely due to low production of the coin as metal composition changed - copper-nickel instead of silver - made people hoard the silver coins.
ANDOB TIL Kayne sampled "Avril 14th" by Aphex Twin without permission and when Richard D James offered to re-record it for them, they replied ‘It's not yours, it's ours, and we're not even asking you any more.’
v1GYB TIL of John Jones. A medical student who was trapped in the Nutty Putty cave while spelunking in 2009. Rescue attempts were unsuccessful and the cave entrance was eventually sealed with concrete. John's body is still there today.
5omD TIL A man who would later become the president of Mormon church once declared, “We will never get a man into space. […] The moon is a superior planet to the earth and it was never intended that man should go there. You can write it down in your books that this will never happen”… in 1961.
GYJ84 TIL nobody knew for certain if there was a point in a horses gait where all 4 legs were off the ground until it was finally settled in 1878 with 16 photos that captured it in quick succession. A horse ran over wires placed every 21 inches and triggered the shutter in ​one-thousandth of a second.