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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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DOGJ TIL that the least ticketed car in the US is the Dodge Viper.
BrYDW TIL about Drachenloch, a Swiss cave. The remains of 30,000 cave bears were found inside, giving it its name (“Dragon’s Lair”).
gKd7 TIL a 50 year old man in Colorado got arrested for brutally killing two raccoons to avenge the death of his cat
D1Q9J TIL that Bayern have only lost one of their last 34 home matches against Frankfurt, and that was back in November 2000 .
l7o55 TIL the term 'computer' used to mean humans who performed tedious, repetitive calculations by hand. Many of whom were women and some became the early programmers in a time when men refused to code because it was seen as "woman's work"