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TIL Einstein originally rejected the Big Bang theory, saying to its author “Your calculations are correct, but your physics is atrocious.”

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P1Z5g TIL the Tinigua language in central Colombia has just 1 native speaker left. His name is Sixto Muñoz and he is thought to have been born in the late 1920s. Despite having 5 children, he did not teach Tinigua to any of them.
jN6VN It depends on who you are and where you live. Humans thrive in Kuwait City, where average highs top 110° for several months a year. But extended runs of hot days and warm nights do lead to spikes in mortality, and climatologists expect an increasing number of heat waves in years to come.
GN71 TIL Norway has over $800 billion invested for future generations. They only invest ethically, and have excluded companies like Boeing for making nukes, Raytheon for making cluster bombs, and Wal-Mart for human rights violations. The investments may be worth as much as $3.3 trillion by 2030.
LB8Z TIL in 1994 a US Soldier in Germany decapitated his friend and brought the head to his cheating wife in the hospital who was pregnant with the other man’s baby.
O8rg TIL around 1000 AD the Inca skull surgeons performed “trepanation” a procedure to relieve intracranial pressure on people with head trauma. By 1400 AD the fatality rate of the procedure was down to 10%