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TIL that Marie Curie named Polonium after her native Poland

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Yjbd TIL that “Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life” had its US premiere in Yonkers, NY to an audience of high school students, and a bunch of them got offended and walked out.
kJPA7 TIL that squirt guns predate the Civil War. Would be General Sherman once said “Why, you might as well attempt to put out the flames of a burning building with a squirt-gun.”
novW TIL a 1984 contestant on the game show “Press My Luck” used his stop-motion VCR to memorize the patterns used on the game board. He won $110,237 in cash and prizes, at the time the largest one-day total ever won on a game show.
grd1L TIL a countries average height is correlated with higher protein consumption. The strongest predictor of adult male height was dietary protein consumption, specifically the “protein index”, especially from animal sources like milk and pork.
M70ZV TIL of Wendy Carlos, who helped invent the Moog synthesizer and the first transgender person to receive a Grammy for her 1968 album Switched-On Bach (she won a total of 3 Grammys for this album).