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TIL Peter Higg's original paper predicting the existence of the Higgs Boson was originally rejected by a scientific journal for being "of no obvious relevance to physics"

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N7D4E TIL Mongolian BBQ was invented in Taiwan in 1951 by a comedian
XEbnP TIL that "Uptown Funk" is not a song by Bruno Mars. The song is by British producer Mark Ronson, and Mars is simply "featured" on the track.
vPlyj TIL about the Louvre doll, an ancient hex doll found in Roman Egypt and dated to the 3rd-4th century CE. It was pierced with multiple pins and was found with a love spell.
5YWRD TIL in Germany in 2014, Pong was added to some traffic lights for pedestrians across the road to play with eachother. It's known as 'StreetPong'.
rJoM TIL Two paragliders were sucked into a thunderstorm during practice. The updraft was so powerful that one pilot was sucked up to 19,000 feet and killed by a lightning strike. The pilot of the second glider passed out from the altitude, but woke up still airborne and covered in ice.