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TIL the Babylonians were already calculating the probability of eclipses 4,000 years ago.

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XXjP TIL that in 1740, Christina Johansdotter, a suicidal Swedish woman, exploited a loophole in dogmas. Suicide leading to Hell and infanticides being punishable by death, she decided to kill a child since repenting for a crime granted forgiveness, thus leading her to Heaven after her execution.
9Y1R6 TIL One of the more plausible theories regarding JFK's assassination is that he was accidentally shot by a Secret Service agent reacting to Lee Harvey Oswald but fell down with an AR-15 in his hand when the follow-car he was in jolted forward
ReZ1 TIL that an estimated 20% to 25% of people are immune to hangovers.
VMVBG Today I learned that 3 MIT computer scientists noticed the lack of peer review for submitted papers in phony journals, and created a fake CS paper software to prove how fraud the organizations were. It worked.
MeJQK TIL a UK study found that North American gray squirrels are smarter than UK red squirrels at tasks to get hazelnuts. Both gray & red equally opened a clear flap to get a nut. But in a multi-step task including operating a lever to get a nut, 91% of gray squirrels solved it vs 62% of red squirrels.