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TIL that Cowboys didn’t actually wear cowboy hats. ????????????

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pDYA TIL that Einstein was rewarded Nobel Prize not for his works with relativity, but for discovery of photoelectric effect.
7va7 TIL There is a pepper grown in Japan called the Shishito pepper. Only 1 out of 10 is spicy and there’s no way of knowing beforehand.
5V7pR TIL How John Maynard Keynes changed Economics
R7Vo6 TIL that a few weeks before the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, US scientists performed a safety test on the EBR-II reactor by disabling cooling pumps and automatic protection systems at full thermal power. The core passively cooled itself as designed without human intervention or damage.
Gj14 TIL the average color of light in the universe is a shade of beige dubbed “Cosmic Latte”