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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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0dkwA TIL Males in most animal species die earlier than females because their smaller Y chromosome is unable to protect an unhealthy X chromosome
N7aDb TIL that Magnus Carlsen (one of the best chess players ever) lost a professional game when his opponent made an illegal move.
bLoQ TIL that AT&T’s Bell Labs invented the message machine in the 1930s. However, it was hidden by AT&T from the public until the 1990s for fear that ‘voice mail’ would end the need for the telephone
odNL TIL that Mel Gibson advised Heath Ledger not to accept the role in Brokeback Mountain because it would “ruin his career,” and then stopped talking to him after he accepted the part.
gr9y4 TIL about George de Hebesy who dissolved the gold Nobel Prizes of German physicists in aqua regia to prevent the Nazis from taking them. After the war, he found the solution undisturbed and reconstituted the gold. The Nobel Foundation then recast the medals and presented them back to the winners.