Isaac Newton may have died from eating mercury.

Newton died in his sleep on March 20, 1727. This means that he could have died from mercury poisoning. After death, Newton had incredible fame, and has been praised by many famous people throughout history.

9 Things You May Not Know About Isaac Newton

• His unhappy childhood helped shape his secretive personality.
• Newton’s mother wanted him to be a farmer.
• The Black Death inadvertently set the stage for one of his most famous insights.
• As a professor at Cambridge, his lectures were poorly attended.

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A black hole is a region of spacetime where gravity is so strong that nothing—no particles or even electromagnetic radiation such as light—can escape from it. In many ways, a black hole acts like an ideal black body, as it reflects no light.

According to theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli, time is an illusion: our naive perception of its flow doesn’t correspond to physical reality. Indeed, as Rovelli argues in The Order of Time, much more is illusory, including Isaac Newton’s picture of a universally ticking clock.

Evolution, in this context, is both a fact and a theory. It is an incontrovertible fact that organisms have changed, or evolved, during the history of life on Earth. And biologists have identified and investigated mechanisms that can explain the major patterns of change.”

Contrary to popular belief, not only are humans still evolving, their evolution since the dawn of agriculture is faster than ever before. For example, while human DNA is on average 98% identical to chimp DNA, the so-called Human Accelerated Region 1 (HAR1), involved in the development of the brain, is only 85% similar.

But humans are not descended from monkeys or any other primate living today. We do share a common ape ancestor with chimpanzees. It lived between 8 and 6 million years ago. All apes and monkeys share a more distant relative, which lived about 25 million years ago.

Darwin’s theory of evolution, also called Darwinism, can be further divided into 5 parts: “evolution as such”, common descent, gradualism, population speciation, and natural selection.