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TIL in 1848 Michel Faraday took Six lectures about the science behind candles

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K7x9 TIL while working on “Malcolm In The Middle,” Bryan Cranston joined a song writers guild so that he got paid royalties for the tunes he hummed and whistled on the show. He threw parties for the cast and crew with the royalty cheques and as a result the crew encouraged more humming.
EmK0 TIL Werner Heisenberg, the creator of quantum mechanics, said, “The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.”
6raQ TIL that rapper T.I. has talked two men out of jumping off a building on two unrelated occasions
ne1YW TIL Cincinnati has 2 miles of incomplete subway tunnels that have been abandoned, yet in decent shape, for almost 100 years.
QGx6 TIL 110 people in Russia (0.0000007% of the population) own 35% of all wealth.