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TIL that the concept of curvature in space-time giving rise to matter and gravitation was predicted in 1870 by William Kingdon Clifford (although not rigorously proving it like Einstein managed)

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yQOKM TIL Once a guy parachuted on top of the Devil's Tower but got stuck there for six days because nobody knew how to get him down.
neDxY TIL Shouting FIRE! in a crowded theater isn’t illegal. In U.S. v. Schenck, SCOTUS decided a pamphlet opposing the draft in WWI posed a "clear and present danger" to a nation at war. But it was overturned 40 years later.
QNadM TIL The Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde first started out creating a project called (Mike Hunt's) Dishonorable Discharge
ogWA TIL that the Unabomber, the Shoe Bomber, the Atlanta Olympic Park bomber, the 1993 World Trade Center bombers, and one of the Oklahoma City bombers are all incarcerated at the same prison.
jNx6p TIL that King Herod of Judea (73/74 BCE – 4 BCE) desired a certain maiden and she killed herself to avoid marrying him. He later went on to preserve her body in honey for 7 years amid rumours of necrophilia.