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TIL That Pythagoras is reported to have sentenced one of his students to death by drowning after the student proved that the square root of two was irrational. (Pythagoras believed all numbers were rational).

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E1rnd TIL bout Emma Haruka Iwao, a Japanese computer scientist who this year broke the record of most digits of Pi calculated, at 31.4 trillion.
WkgKX TIL in 1980 after causing roughly $200,000 in damage to SNL property and shouting “fuck New York” into the microphone, the punk band FEAR was banned from NBC for life
vn7K TIL Barns are painted red because red paint is cheap, the paint is cheap because the iron is abundant and the iron is abundant because it’s the final element formed from a star’s death.
4XVZo TIL Jim Carrey asked for Canibal Corpse to appear in Ace Ventura because he was a huge fan of their music. The song played during the movie “Hammer Smashed Face” was one his favorites which he specifically asked for them to play.
XEroD TIL Killer whales in the wild have not been responsible for a single human casualty.