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TIL That OMG's (Oh My God) First Use Was In A Letter To Winston Churchill In 1917.

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e0eE TIL that 60 years ago, the idea of a politician soliciting campaign contributions was so frowned-upon that Nixon was very nearly kicked off the Republican ticket for doing it
j6J9n TIL in 1971 a Time Dilation experiment had 2 flights w/atomic clocks go around the world to prove Einstein's theories of relativity (time moves slower as you approach the speed of light, and/or when exposed to more gravity). The clocks gained 0.15 microseconds compared to the ground based clock.
jk5R TIL The Tin Man started as a real man. The wicked witch cursed his ax to chop off his limbs, which he kept replacing with tin, until eventually he was made entirely out of tin. However he forgot to replace his heart.
epjyk TIL that in the late 1600s Emperor K'ang Hsi, who had survived smallpox as a child, had his children inoculated. That method involved grinding up smallpox scabs and blowing the matter into nostril. Inoculation may also have been practiced by scratching matter from a smallpox sore into the skin.
R7ok8 TIL of Juan Luna, a painter who killed his wife and her mother in Paris in 1892, because he suspected his wife of having had an affair. He was arrested but acquitted on the basis of temporary insanity. At the time in France there was an “unwritten law” that forgave men for killing unfaithful wives.