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TIL that Isaac Newton predicted that the world would end around 2060. He wrote this in a letter in 1704 after studying different religious texts. He also “wrote more about theology and alchemy than science and math combined.”

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Y5oZ TIL that a group of more than 200 Japanese pensioners volunteered to tackle the nuclear crisis that happened at Fukushima power station saying “they should be facing the dangers of radiation, not the young”
R5pA6 TIL about Mónica Macías, the daughter of Equatorial Guinea's first president, and who was partially raised by North Korea's first leader Kim Il Sung
7rBYb TIL about the "Ghost Ships of Kiptopeke" - concrete ships sunken off of Kiptopeke, VA, USA to form a breakwater
r1MW TIL there is a Magic the Gathering Musical
gMoxL TIL if you lived in a basement all you life you would live 90 billionths of a second longer than those living on the surface. This is because where the pull of gravity is stronger, the slower time moves. Time moves faster upstairs.