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TIL that there's something called a neutrino. It's a particle that's created in stars and supernovas, and which passes through everything including you, every second.. also.. the neutrino detector is, without a doubt, one of the most mind-blowing things I've ever seen in my life..

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Ql0a TIL that a half-liter of vodka must cost at least $5.56 in Russia. These minimum vodka prices are set to help curb alcoholism.
4X9Zb TIL "Antwerp diamond heist" dubbed the "heist of the century". Around $100 million worth loose diamonds, gold, and jewellery were stolen. It took place in Antwerp,Belgium in 2003.Though arrests were made and time was served, most of the diamonds stolen remain unrecovered.
rN7Z0 TIL about the Dreyfuss Affair a political scandal that divided the Third French Republic from 1894 until its resolution in 1906. The scandal began in December 1894 when Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a 35-year-old Alsatian French artillery officer of Jewish descent, was convicted of treason.
jNZRQ TIL that after the Spanish Civil war, many Republicans fled to exile in France. During WW2 more than 60,000 Spanish Republicans, experienced in guerrilla warfare, joined the French Resistance and Free French Forces. The first allied division to enter Paris was almost entirely Spanish.
P1E9J TIL The first known case of mastitis (inflammation of the breast) dates back to the 5th century BCE. The specific case was when Empress Atossa of Persia had a mass successful exercised from her breast by the Greek slave Democedes.