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Today I learned the first selfie ever taken was in 1839!

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pJoe TIL The inscription on the Hiroshima Peace Memorial reads “please rest in peace for ‘we/they’ shall not repeat the error.” In Japanese, the sentence’s subject is omitted, thus it could be interpreted as 'we’ or 'they’. This was intended to memorialize the victims without politicizing the issue.
VBL48 TIL that the inclusion of women in clinical research did not become law until 1993.
KRL9 TIL that when Uwe Boll made a bid to direct the Warcraft movie, Blizzard responded, “We will not sell the movie rights, not to you… especially not to you”
N76JQ TIL that Indian-American nurse Sandeep Kaur made a ton of money on the stock market, quit nursing for gambling, in which her obsession took her into a world of thrill and crime, and the “Bombshell Bandit” was born.
9k9p TIL Nicole Kidman and Michelle Phiefer both bet Georg Clooney $10,000 that he would have kids by age 40. Staying childless they sent him the money which he returned, replying double or nothing by age 50.