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TIL Isaac Asimov’s favorite short story that he wrote was “The Last Question”, an interesting take on the end of the universe

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kOXn1 TIL about Jacques Bergier, a jewish white russian with an eidetic memory, emigrant in France, became a genius in many disciplines and science-fiction editor, resistant and prisoner at Mauthausen camp during WW2, his last words were "I am not a legend".
oBKEr TIL a picture of Brock Turner's face was once used as the definition of "rape" in a Criminology textbook.
E8E0 TIL that it actually does rain more over the weekend because heat and pollution from midweek work traffic prevents moisture from forming, but on weekends when there is no traffic it rains.
ew7b TIL the 100,000th U.S. Patent was a Horse Sun Bonnet.
78y9p TIL British military scientists tested mustard gas on Indians by sending hundreds of Indian soldiers into gas chambers and exposed them to mustard gas