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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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Br0LW TIL Kazakh author Rollan Seisenbayev wrote a novel about the human-engineered collapse of the Aral Sea, first published in in the final years of the Soviet Union. The Aral's shrinkage left seaside villages and beached shipping vessels far from the shoreline, destroying the fisheries
xeRD TIL there is nothing inherently technical or necessary in a microwave popcorn bag. You can make microwave popcorn in a brown paper bag with normal kernels.
166V TIL Brian Eno created the Windows 95 start-up music on an Apple computer. “I wrote it on a Mac. I’ve never used a PC in my life; I don’t like them”.
X1N6 TIL: Not all snow flakes are symmetrical: “Despite what Wilson Bentley’s old photographs would have us believe, most snowflakes are not symmetrical. Wilson Bentley only photographed the pretty ones. In fact, 99% of snow flakes are downright ugly
xVVBB TIL the "Hitler" mustache was originally coined as the "Toothbrush Mustache" before Hitler came along. It was also known as the 1/3, the postage stamp, and the soul stache.