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TIL Mary Toft managed to trick doctors into believing that she had given birth to rabbits. Mary did this by shoving the rabbits up her vagina before pushing them out and ‘birthing’ them.

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rRaBw TIL that Ramanujan's lost notebook, discovered 56 years after his death, contained the mock theta functions that have been found to be useful for calculating the entropy of black holes. The unordered sheets contained over six hundred mathematical formulas listed consecutively without proofs.
BrwPL TIL on 1838, in order to pay off debts of Georgetown College, the Maryland Jesuits sold 272 slaves from their plantations. The buyers were Louisiana sugarcane planters.
v1go8 TIL The discovery of Chris Cornells suicide was horrific. Only 40 minutes after his wife was concerned that he sounded strange on the phone, she called his security guard to check on him. She was listening on the phone as his security guard kicked down his door & found Chris hung in his bathroom.
9Y1yQ TIL that "Creep" by Radiohead was banned by the BBC in 1992 for being too depressing
ANlwg TIL the architect of the Sydney Opera House left midway though construction and never returned to Australia. He died some 40 years later having never seen his work.