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TIL that at 23 years old, Isaac Newton went into quarantine due to the bubonic plague. During his time in quarantine, he proved the refractive properties of prisms, invented calculus, and was famously hit on the head by an apple.

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rRLye TIL of the Tibetan blackbird, living in the Himalayas. As a type of bird called a thrush its genus classification is "Turdus" (Latin for "thrush"). And since the Tibetan blackbird is larger than the common blackbird, it has been given the species name "Turdus Maximus."
M7yXm TIL The Space Shuttle was designed in the hopes that spacefaring would become cheap, reliable and everyday. Instead, maintaining the fleet took months of arduous technical work and instead of flying once a week, the shuttle made on average fewer than five flights a year
dDk0Q TIL that only 144 people live in Ellesmere, the 10th largest island in the world
pYReb TIL that Usain bolt went on a trial with Australian a league football club Central Coast Mariners in order to try and become a professional footballer
kJljm TIL there's a professional field called "Sexology" - the scientific study of Human sexuality, interest, urges and behaviours