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TIL Marie Curie’s notebooks are classified as low-level nuclear waste and are kept in a lead box in Paris

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QJ1Dd TIL James Derham was a black man who worked as an assistant under several doctors who owned him in the 1700s. He learned about medicine from them which lead him to open his own practice after he was freed. He was the first African-American to practice medicine in the U.S.
M7BxK TIL "Rebound" has been used to describe the period after a break-up since at least the 1830s
KO6pQ TIL Jackie Kennedy wore her blood-splattered pink Chanel suit for the rest of the day after JFK’s assassination. When asked to change her outfit, she replied “I want them to see what they have done to Jack.”
Wma8 TIL that despite the assumption that pre-19th century fashion was all about modesty, there was a period in the 1770s where extremely low cut necklines with areola and nipple exposure were common and considered less risqué than shoulder exposure.
xjEg TIL that a blackberry has only one calorie.