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TIL of the H - Index. A ranking of scientific authors and scholars according to productivity and citation impact of publications. It also takes into account things like obtaining the Nobel prize, being a research fellow or holding a high position at a university. Albert Einstein has an H index of 44

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AN07a TIL that to save the Hawaiian culture and people from disappearing, Kalākaua, the last king of the Hawaiian kingdom, went on a world tour in 1881, and travelled to Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the United States, and he became the first reigning monarch to circumnavigate the globe.
16D14 TIL Giant seabirds called albatrosses have specialized salt glands above their beaks that allow them to drink seawater. These glands filter out excess salt, which is then excreted through their nostrils as a concentrated saline solution.
K0pa TIL that John Candy turned down Wayne Szlaniski in “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids” and Louis Tully in “Ghostbusters” because he felt his good friend Rick Moranis was better suited for the parts.
0YL5 TIL the Supreme Court has ruled police have no legal duty to enforce restraining orders, after police failed to act on the restraining order of a mother whose 3 children were later murdered by her ex-husband.
0dmwv TIL although Frank Sinatra & Marlon Brando's feud was reportedly mild at the start of production for Guys and Dolls, Brando began to hate Sinatra because he kept calling Brando “Mumbles” to make him angry. So Brando pretended to forget his lines during a scene which forced Sinatra to eat repeatedly.