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P1gRL TIL beryllium used to be called glucinium since French chemists noticed it tasted sweet
Egd70 TIL Mao Zedong's successor Hua Guofeng tried to set up his personality cult. New songs and dances in praise of Chairman Hua were performed and a national campaign saturated China with posters showing Hua sitting with Mao. Hua even altered his appearance and calligraphy to resemble Mao
OG8A1 TIL Chadwick (the discoverer of neutron) was a student of Rutherford (discoverer of proton) who was the student of Thomson (discoverer of electron).