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TIL: An inventor has created a Rubik's Cube that solves itself.

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VMjKZ Today I Learned that James W. Ford was the first African American to run on a presdential ticket in the 20th century
56ZQ TIL of patient SM who due to a genetic defect of amygdala is unable to experience fear. Described as very outgoing, extremely friendly & disinhibited, she has an abnormally high tendency to approach & engage in physical contact with others & is greatly impaired in recognizing negative social cues
QxA6 TIL that newgrange in Ireland is older than both Stonehenge and the pyramids in Giza. On the morning of the winter solstice every year the rising sun shines down the entrance passageway and illuminates the burial chamber at the end. This only happens for a few minutes, once a year.
R5gpw TIL Jim Gordon, founding member of Derek & The Dominoes, prolific studio drummer (Beach Boys, Byrds, C,S & N, Elvis, Nilsson, Stone Poneys, Tom Petty, Ronstadt, Lennon, Harrison, and more) developed schizophrenia, and beat his 72 year old mother to death with a hammer and knife. He is still in jail.
wLo0P TIL that there are a pair of replica Titanics, 4 stories tall, that serve as museums to the disaster. They're in rural Tennessee and Missouri, amongst cornfields, 3000 miles from the disaster.