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TIL Marie Curie gave away most of her Nobel Prize money, repaid the scholarship she received as a student as soon as she began working, and refrained from patenting the radiation-isolation process so that the scientific community would not have any trouble with continuing research.

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xGnD TIL that in Japan, prisoners on death row are not given a date of execution. They are notified just a few hours before, and their families are not notified until they are dead.
6NP8 TIL on his deathbed the writer/philosopher Voltaire responded to the priest asking him if he renounced Satan for his Last Rites, he responded,“Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies.”
Z8RMG TIL the United States is the country with the largest difference between hottest and coldest temperature ever recorded, at a whopping 214°F (119°C)
e0WR5 TIL the sitcom "Boy Meets World" in the first season kept having a new third boy character as a friend of Cory and Shawn, as the original idea was to have three boys. They kept trying new male friends but none lasted more than a episode before deciding to make Topanga the third friend.
E1VRd TIL: In 2005, a Japanese stockbroker set the value of J-Com’s share price to one yen for 610,000 shares, when he was supposed to have set it to 610,000 yen for one share. That error costed J-Com 27 billion yen—or about $236 million—which was the near equivalent to their previous years’ total income.