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TIL Stephen Hawking held a party for time travelers, sent the invite out the day after, and no one showed up.

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E14Yd TIL that Jim Adkins of Jimmy Eat World was sent an email from a high school girl who talked about how she didn’t quite fit in with others, wasn’t part of any social groups, and felt like she was stuck in “the middle”....so he wrote a song about her.
vPRR8 TIL that some countries presume organ donor consent with a system known as 'opt-out'. Surprisingly, the only significant result (as of this 2019 study) has been a reduction in living organ donation
VMALB TIL Ada Lovelace who wrote the first algorithm for a computing machine and first saw the potential in computers was a daughter of Lord Byron
GApmJ TIL that the PlayStation 2 continued to be produced until 2013, one of the longest lifespans of any video game console.
MYm TIL that in the orignal Powerpuff Girls pilot, the accidental substance was a can of “Whoop Ass”