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TIL Sacha Baron-Cohen’s cousin is a world famous Autism reseracher

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9wp7p TIL Archimedes is recorded to have died in a math related killing. The most common story is that he was too busy solving a math problem to follow orders from Roman soldiers and was killed, or that he was found with scientific instruments that were mistaken as valuables and killed for them.
b6y1j TIL Despite his short life, 35 years, Mozart was able to influence the classical music scene with more than 800 works.representing every western classical genre of his time.
BgRDD TIL that the words "corroborate" and "corroboree" are completely unrelated.
R7LV1 TIL “cat zoomies” have a technical name: Frenetic Random Activity Periods or FRAPs. FRAPs are a surprising and sometimes alarming (especially in the middle of the night), yet completely normal, cat behavior
gMKeL TIL Leigh Mercer, a mathematician and writer, created an equation that, when spoken aloud, was a limerick. "A dozen, a gross, and a score/Plus three times the square root of four/Divided by seven/Plus five times eleven/Is nine squared and not a bit more."