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TIL that Marie Curie was buried in a lead-lined coffin (although it remains uncertain, if this was because of concerns over her radium contamination)

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yVeOl TIL that during WWII a pilot named J. Hunter Reinberg wanted to make ice cream for his men in the Pacific Theater. So he flew to 33,000 ft and came back down with gallons of chocolate ice cream.
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