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TIL a SIGNIFICANT portion of Chumbawamba’s discography is sociopolitical folk music

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rROdw TIL Nikola Tesla once paid an overdue hotel bill with a 'working model' of his 'death beam'. He warned the management never to open it. After his death in 1943, the box was opened and they found nothing but a bunch of old electrical components
b6mOj TIL that a Florida attorney, E.E. Calloway, believed that the area around Florida’s Torreya State Park was the site of the biblical Garden of Eden and created a tourist attraction where people could tour the site. He also believed the torreya trees in the park were used to build Noah’s Ark.
yVMlp TIL that in 2019, the TV series 'River Monsters' ended because host Jeremy Wade had caught nearly every exceptionally large freshwater fish species on Earth, leaving no content for future episodes.
OkmR TIL 16% of the world’s population, 1.1 billion are atheists, agnostics and people who do not identify with any particular religion
R1B4 TIL a philosophy riddle from 1688 was recently solved. If a man born blind can feel the differences between shapes such as spheres and cubes, could he, if given the ability, distinguish those objects by sight alone? In 2003 five people had their sight restored though surgery, and, no they could not.