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TIL the Demon Core was a piece of plutonium intended to be used in a third atomic bomb to drop on Japan... due to lax saftely standards, its criticality was being regulated with just a screwdriver, and two physicists were killed maintaining it

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jN5kj TIL about "Present Bias" where we give more weightage to payoffs that are closer to the present time when considering an option between two future pay-offs. According to research, managing present bias leads to better prospects in wealth and health.
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d8wbj TIL that whenever Queen Elizabeth is talking with someone, she uses her handbag to signal coded messages to her staff to indicate how the conversation is going.