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TIL that Lise Meittner, the co-discoverer of nuclear fission, never won the Nobel Prize. She was nominated 48 times in both Physics and Chemistry.

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GALr7 TIL on the island of Papua New Guinea, there are a number of species of green lizards that have green bones, green hearts, green tongues, and green blood.
NwYN TIL that the world’s largest cocaine producer is Peru. It has dethroned Colombia.
GLoE TIL that because of prenatal scans and boys being the preferential gender in China. That in 20 years there will be 30-50 million men without wives in China.
xVJZb TIL Four babies are born every second
ONER TIL that there is a field of study that focuses on ‘primate archeology’. This field believes that certain primates have entered their own stone age.