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TIL about the Kentucky Miner Who Scammed Americans by Posing as Hitler With ‘Invisible Spaceships’

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nxa9 TIL that a theoretical physicist is in between between “Monkey-Sex Observer” and “Vermin Handler” for the worst jobs in Science.
0Yn5 TIL that two Japanese sled dogs survived alone in Antarctica for 11 months
awQGA TIL: The US has been quietly converting to the metric system and has already gotten pretty far
epdk5 TIL in 2010, Sandra Bullock made history when she won an Oscar and Razzie in the same year.
5YZQp TIL that in 1939 an experiment was conducted at the University of Iowa on orphans in which the purpose was to induce stuttering in otherwise normally speaking children. Dubbed the "monster study", it caused lifelong psychological issues in some of the subjects.