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TIL of heat death, where the universe will eventually turn into a cold void with no interactions between particles, its ultimate death

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6Ljw TIL A shopkeeper in New Delhi teaches around 200 slum kids under a metro bridge for free. The school has no desks, chairs or blackboard just makeshift arrangements. Aptly named “Free School: Under the Bridge”
N7jre TIL: Ironically, the doctrine of papal infallibility (the pope officially has singular absolute final say on matters of church doctrine) dates only to 1870, around the time when the papacy permanently lost all its remaining temporal political power.
RLo4 TIL there was a thoroughbred racehorse with a series of significant wins in the late eighteenth century named Potoooooooo, or Pot-8-Os.
xVlmb TIL a Maine citizen once randomly decided to become a hermit and stayed as one for over 27 years. He committed up to a thousand minor burglaries and he became so prolific that people started leaving shopping lists for him to write down what he wanted.
VMGBB TIL Despite being an atheist, the famed mathematician Paul Erdős often referred to a celestial book "The Book" that contains every one of God’s perfect mathematical proofs. Two mathematicians then collected these proofs and published them in 1998, with new proofs being added over the last 2 decades.