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TIL of Laura Bassi, the first woman to have a doctorate in science. She was privately tutored till she was 20, when the archbishop of Bologna noticed her talent and became her patron. She earned her doctorate at 21 by defending 49 theses before professors of the University of Bologna.

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6lx8 TIL- An 18 year old model threatened to leak a selfie of her and NHL superstar Jaromir Jagr in bed together if he didn’t pay her $2000 usd. His response- I don’t care.
J1dgj TIL there is a village in India. Where people believe that they are descendants of soldiers of Alexander's army. And they are last pure aryan blood tribe. Many women from Germany and europe travel there to get pregnant and have a baby with aryan genes.
Z8j1v TIL of De Coquinaria, by Apicius, the oldest fully extant cookbook from ancient Rome. It's organised much like a modern cookbook, with sections for poultry, sea-food, wines, and a section for gourmet recipes. It includes a recipe for stuffed doormouse
neXmd TIL Protecting the Giant Panda's habitat has the unintended benefit of aiding 70% of the forest bird species, 70% of forest mammals, and 31% of forest amphibians that are endemic to mainland China.
OGGLg TIL in 2010 the US Air Force built a supercomputer out of 1760 PS3s. It was the 35th most powerful supercomputer in the world at the time and used 10% of the energy of comparable systems.