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TIL that astrophysicist Stephen Hawking once hosted a party but nobody showed up because he sent the invitations for the party only the day after, thus basically proving by experiment that time travel is not possible.

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j9xN TIL Professor Geoff Raisman spent 60 years of his life trying to find a cure for paralysis. He was fired twice but 9 months ago he helped paralysed Darek Fidyka walk again and believes his team’s work, and this breakthrough, will help many paralyzed people walk again in the near future.
9bdr TIL of a man named Simon Bunce who was arrested for buying child porn online, and lost his job and family over it, only to be revealed that someone in Indonesia hacked his credit card.
kJpl7 TIL that in 1988, a patent was issued for a type of lab mouse that was genetically modified to increase the mouse's chances of developing cancer
GAl0N TIL that the world's oldest known piece of chewing gum is over 9,000 years old.
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