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TIL there is a 1 in 2600 chance that Earth will be hit by a 1.3km asteroid in the year 2880. It would be devastating to human civilisation.

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1aVM4 TIL that a rule was put in place in 1906 by Tiffany and Company that prevented anyone from buying an empty box in their signature blue color. Each and every Tiffany box had to contain a store purchase.
a8OnA TIL that David Cox and Steven Zucker, two graduate students from Princeton, developed an algorithm for the intersection numbers of sections of elliptic surfaces and named it the Cox-Zucker machine.
9QrM TIL: A man tried to rob a bank after paying $500 to a wizard to make him invisible. Thinking no one could see him, he strolled into a bank in Tehran and started snatching money out of people’s hands
m1l0p TIL German author Friedrich Nietzsche would send letters calling for the German emperor to go to Rome to be shot & called for military action against Germany. He called for the Pope to be jailed & all anti-Semites to be shot. He also stated he created the world & signed his letters as 'Dionysus.'
negb7 TIL that the first self help book was called Self-Help and was written by Dr. Samuel Smiles who coined the phrase "God helps those who help themselves."