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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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b97yN TIL a 64-year-old Sydney man filed 19,600 noise complaints about airport noise over a 12 month period. He averaged approximately one complaint for every 20 minutes the airport was open.
yPkV TIL that Ron Howard has given each of his children the middle name of where they were conceived: Bryce (Dallas), Jocelyn and Paige (Carlyle; Carlyle Hotel, NYC), and Reed (Cross; famous London street. Reed was named after the street because according to Howard, “Volvo isn’t a very good middle name.”
PpKO TIL The hottest curry on earth is a British curry made in Grantham, Lincolnshire. Known as ‘The Widower’ it is so hot it can make you hallucinate.
E1Mxx TIL the solar storm of 1859 caused the aurora borealis to be seen as far south as the Caribbean and was bright enough to wake miners in the Rockies. The geomagnetic current was also strong enough to power telegraph systems. A similar event happening today would cause widespread blackouts and damage.
gr6W8 TIL about the Mapogo lion coalition of 6 male lions that took over 70K hectares, which was ruled by 8 different prides and killing over 100 lions in the process. They completely changed the entire Sabi Sands ecosystem.