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TIL that Chadwick(the discoverer of the neutron) was a student of Rutherford(the discoverer of the proton) who was student of Thomson (the discoverer of the electron).

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GK7G TIL that Israel sunk an American naval research ship that was monitoring radio during the Six-Day war. Officially it was ruled an accident, although all survivors maintain that it was intentional.
QgQM TIL English muffins aren’t baked.
jNG9j TIL that a 10-hour film called Paint Drying was made by a disgruntled filmmaker in order to force Britain's film censorship board to watch and classify paint drying.
D1lNJ TIL that the only word in English that ends in -mt is "dreamt", and its extensions like daydreamt and redreamt.
4km9J TIL that the conspiracy theorist David Icke was (before his mental breakdown and declaring himself the son of God in a chatshow in 1991) a footballer and a popular BBC sports correspondent