In 1848, Edgar Allen Poe wrote "Eureka" which envisaged The Big Bang, Black Holes, The Big Crunch

Interesting and weird fact about Edgar Allan Poe: 

Did you know? In 1848, Edgar Allan Poe wrote "Eureka" which envisaged The Big Bang, Black Holes, The Big Crunch and the first plausible solution to the Olbers Paradox. This was 100+ years before any of those were accepted scientific facts and Einstein would later call it "a beautiful achievement".

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