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TIL we've known the Earth is a globe for over 2000 years

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Y7BgG TIL that on the night before The Drifters were to record their legendary hit "Under the Boardwalk", vocalist Rudy Lewis was found dead from a likely heroin overdose. Rather than reschedule the studio session, the part was given to the group's former lead vocalist, Johnny Moore
6EBMQ TIL Stephen Hawking once sent his PhD student away with a very hard problem – finding exact rotating black hole solutions of Einstein’s equations with a cosmological constant – and was stunned when he came back a few days later with the solution
oRGxo TIL: You can legally pack laptops in your luggage when flying
Z50v TIL when University of Vienna students were asked their reasons behind choosing to learn Finnish, 97 per cent of respondents said the main factor behind their decision was heavy metal music.
78pBP TIL 25 supercars that were seized from the son of Equatorial Guinea's dictator were sold for a combined $27M at auction in Switzerland in 2019