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TIL in 2012 Japanese mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki presented a proof for the “abc conjucture” - one of the most important, unsolved problems in math. However the proof is so difficult and abstract, that not even his peers get the gist of it. To this day it is still unconfirmed.

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Q46d TIL there are 169,518,829,100,544,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the first ten moves in chess.
b9rej TIL due to lifestyle changes over the last 150 years, the average human body temperature has decreased from 98.6 Fahrenheit to around 97.5
N7RaP TIL that many birds do not breed very well in small flocks and that Zoos use mirrors to help increase reproduction.
m1xgP TIL Vincent Van Gogh wanted to be a pastor and didn’t start painting until 1880 when he was 27 years old and his most famous works were done while he was a patient in an asylum a year before his death in 1890, completing nearly 900 oil paintings in just ten years.
QJWM6 TIL Director John Landis violated child labour laws & ignored warnings in a Twilight Zone scene with a helicopter & explosives. This resulted in the decapitation of Vic Morrow & a child actor, the death of another child actor, & the loss of the helicopter. He was acquitted of all charges.