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TIL In 2010 a man claiming to be from the future was attempting to stop the discovery of the Higgs Boson, he was arrested and sent to a mental hospital where he disappeared

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lo1DB TIL that 7 years after the U.S. acquired of what is today Washington state, "Columbia" was originally given the name of the new territory in 1853. However, Congress changed the name to "Washington", arguing that people would easily be confused with the nation's capital, the District of Columbia.
wpjJ TIL that a 2 month-old baby boy named Ernest was raffled off at the 1909 World’s Fair in Seattle. No one claimed him with the winning ticket, and it’s unclear what happened to him.
dom7 TIL Shaquille O'Neal gave fellow NBA superstar Paul Pierce his nickname “The Truth” by stating to a reporter after a game against Pierce, “Take this down. My name is Shaquille O'Neal and Paul Pierce is the motherfucking truth. Quote me on that and don’t take nothing out.”
1E7r TIL that the alternative history novel “The Man in the High Castle” features a “novel within a novel”. While the actual book is about Nazis winning WWII, the in-book novel is about an alternate universe in which the Nazis lose the war.
dD8N8 TIL that mice have a resting heart rate that ranges from 500-700 bpm, while a normal person is only 60-100