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QNbEe TIL that, after having received spam from "predatory" academic journals fishing for publication fees, students from NYU and UCLA retaliated with a submission of their own. The paper, named "Get me off Your Fucking Mailing List," contained text, diagrams, and graphs repeating the title for 10 pages.
R5nv4 TIL that Crystal Lake, Iowa is home of the worlds largest Bullhead Statue.
EmK0 TIL Werner Heisenberg, the creator of quantum mechanics, said, “The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.”
QNRNd TIL that Charlize Theron's mother shot and killed her father in self defense in front of her. Charlize would later go on to be the first person born in Africa to win an Oscar for acting.
XEJlr TIL during the middle Ages saffron was so expensive some traders would try to increase their profits by bulking up the herb with yellow marigold petals. When authorities in Nuremberg, where the herb was mainly traded, found out about these tainted parcels of saffron, the traders were burned alive.