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TIL trains were invented before bicycles

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PYleZ TIL The ancient Greeks had known the world is round since Pythagoras, and successfully calculated the circumference of the globe when Eratosthenes measued the angles of the mid-day sun between two towns of a known distance. His calculation had only about a 10% margin of error.
OoayX TIL Of Leo Ryan, a congressman who was sent to investigate Jonestown who was murdered on orders of Jim Jones, along with an NBC news crew shortly before the infamous mass suicide
BrReK TIL that a British man named Robert Fidler asked for permission to build a mini castle on his farm. Permission was not granted, so he built it secretly and hid it behind haystacks for 4 years, believing that if nobody complained for 4 years he could keep it
kJ4EW TIL: Bill Medley is one of the original members of The Righteous Brothers (famous for their definitive 1965 cover of "Unchained Melody"), but he also sang on the duet "(I've Had) The Time of My Life", from the 1987 sound track of Dirty Dancing.
jB1a TIL Bipolar disorder may have been a climatic adaptation for humans to survive short summers (manic episodes for high productivity) and long winters (depression to slow metabolism).