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TIL about Alkaline hydrolysis , an alternative way of body disposal

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W70o9 TIL Graduate student Jocelyn Bell Burnell and her supervisor, Antony Hewish, built a radio telescope to observe quasars in 1967. Their discovery won the 1974 Nobel Prize – for Hewish. 50 years later, Burnell was awarded $3 Million in the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
6EVJQ TIL for the first 40 million years that woody trees were around, wood was not biodegradable...until a fungus figured out how to rot it
kOXXd TIL that Nikola Tesla fell in love with a pidgeon.
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