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TIL Isaac Newton spent 50 years (and wrote 4,500 pages) trying to predict the date for the end of the world using a biblical code. He finally settled on 2060 and this was not known for over 250 years until his papers on the issue were found in a trunk in at the house of the Earl of Portsmouth.

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n8Eb TIL 400 million years ago, there were giant mushrooms as tall as a tree – 26 feet tall and about 3 feet wide
6EWmm TIL that Twinkies switched from their original banana cream filling to their now standard vanilla cream filling due to the rationing of bananas during WW2.
e0n7J TIL 5% of patients who take the anti-depressant clomipramine experience orgasms every time they yawn
GL5j TIL of Ikaria Island off the coast of Greece is called “the island where people forget to die” because of the high proportion of 100-year-olds.
YNa7 TIL Rick and Morty largely only exists because Bill Cosby’s lawyers sent a cease and desist to Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon in 2005 over an internet series called ‘House of Cosbys’.