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TIL per capita, the UK produces more scientific research than both the US and China

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eplMJ TIL about Jack Barsky, a former KGB agent who lived in the US. The FBI bought the property next door and monitored him for 3 years. He was caught and confessed. Barsky later became close friends with the FBI agent tasked with monitoring him and he is now a godfather to Barsky's child.
nWeNr TIL that a group of Geoducks, the largest burrowing clam in the world, is called a "bag". The name Geoduck was derived from an indigenous word meaning "genitals", or a phrase meaning "dig deep", or perhaps both, as a double-entendre. So a group of Geoducks is literally a "bag of dicks"
W7XVX TIL that the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth was 1 part of a wider conspiracy to also assassinate the Vice President and Secretary of State the same night in order to create chaos in the government after the Civil War. Only Booth was successful however.
0wrwv TIL a library in Herculaneum was burned and buried in 79 AD when Mt. Vesuvius erupted. For 250+ years, scholars have been unrolling/attempting to decipher recovered manuscripts from the only antiquarian library ever recovered. The site was never fully excavated; it is assumed more are still buried.
W1bL TIL a man once saved a baby from a dumpster only to discover he was the father