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TIL that Professor Stephen Hawking, World-renowned theoretical physicist, sang in and featured on a number of songs including Monty Python Galaxy Song released 2015.

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E1oWP TIL a university maths professor helped a pig farmer prove in court that a hot air balloon startled his pigs causing them to fall into a ditch and die by using trigonometry and a photograph
ADl7 TIL that the traffic jam in the Italian Job is real due to the Turin authorities refusing to close the roads; this led the Mafia to step in and cause one themselves
4wpR TIL that Ancient Roman politician Gaius Gracchus had a bounty placed on his head that was equivalent to his head’s weight in gold. The head was delivered, but the reward was never paid because it was discovered that his captor removed Gaius’ brain and filled his head with molten lead.
JE74 TIL there is controversy about scientists naming a protein “sonic hedgehog”. A mutation in this protein can cause serious birth defects and many scientists/clinicians dislike the idea of telling parents their child has “a mutation in their sonic hedgehog”
kbp4 TIL Keanu Reeves once had a paternity suit filed against him when a woman claimed he used hypnosis and disguised himself as her ex-husband in order to impregnate her