May 16 TIL that Neptune was discovered in 1846 not by accident, but because astronomers noticed Uranus was wobbling off course. Mathematicians used Newton’s laws to predict where a hidden planet should be and when they pointed a telescope there, Neptune was right where the math said it would be.
May 16 Photographer Sam Davis captured the incredible moment a snake eel escaped from heron’s stomach while the bird was still in flight !
May 17 Deadmau5 gets a random message from a 17 year old boy who wrote and provided vocals to an unreleased song. Deadmau5 decides to react to it on stream, is absolutely blown away, and instantly signs the kid. The song was eventually released and is one of deadmau5’s biggest hits to this day.
