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TIL that Marie Curie named Polonium after her native Poland

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nGJ7 TIL: Flo from Progressive makes $500k/year doing those commercials
Y7D0G TIL - The longest word in any language is the chemical name for the protein Titin, also known as connectin, which has 189,819 letters? The word takes over three hours to pronounce in its entirety, and it would take more than 2,000 pages to write it out by hand.
1anA7 TIL Russia was forced to release ten pirates who had taken over an oil tanker, due to having insufficient legal grounds to detain them. They released them in an inflatable boat without any navigation equipment. Radio contact was lost within an hour. It’s believed that they all perished.
woMK1 TIL there is a term for phobia of other people’s opinion of you. It’s called Allodoxaphobia and it can be treated through therapy
grOpD TIL that an unknown 19th century Japanese artist painted a parody of the sacred scene of the Buddha's death that is commonly called the "Penis Paranirvana", in which the dying Buddha is replaced by a giant anthropomorphic penis being mourned by women and other penises.