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TIL that each year on April Fools Day, James Randi gives an award to expose frauds called the Pigasus Award.

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ADkYn TIL even though physicists have confirmed every prediction made by the general relativity and quantum theories, they are mutually incompatible for very small or very massive objects. Therefore a framework revealing a deeper underlying reality must be discovered in order to unify the two theories.
ZgMG TIL That in most Southern States the Coroner is the only person that can arrest the Sheriff
a8AZ TIL: The phrase “on the rocks” came from the “olden days” in Scotland, where scott’s who didn’t have ice would go to the river and take stones chilled by the mountain snow and add it to there drinks. And that’s where the phrase, scotch “on the rocks” comes from
d89EB TIL of the Continuum hypothesis : An hypothesis that has been proven unprovable under current mathematics.
KO8gR TIL At its peak, the Salton Sea was drawing 1.5 million visitors annually, more than Yosemite. At one point, it was also was the most productive fishery in California.