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TIL of Ettore Majorana, an Italian theoretical physicist who predicted the existence of the neutron and neutrino before disappearing without a trace in 1938

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kGe1 TIL Lawrence of Rome was sentenced to die by being roasted alive. After a while of being seared over burning coals, he told the executioners “turn me over, I’m well done on this side.” Today he is the patron saint of cooks and chefs in the Catholic Church.
J16kV TIL that Mother’s Day in the USA is on a different day than Mother’s Day in the UK
EJGo TIL “The Land Before Time” (1988) had both Steven Spielberg and George Lucas as executive producers.
lKo1 TIL researchers trained flatworms, then decapitated them. After their heads grew back, researchers found they had retained their training.
awL8N TIL that courtroom artists in the UK & Hong Kong draw their sketches from memory as they are not permitted to draw in the court.