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TIL that in 1962, at the University of Texas at Austin, Janis Joplin was voted "ugliest man on campus"

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kOYxB TIL: In 2005 a company named SeaCode wanted to anchor a cruise ship three miles off the coast of Los Angeles, and fill it with up to 600 foreign programmers. The idea was to eliminate visa restrictions, and avoid U.S. labor laws.
B4vx TIL that during American Civil War some soldier’s wounds glowed blue; soldier’s whose wounds glowed had a better chance of surviving, and so the glow was called “Angel’s Glow”. Now it is known that the luminescence is due to bacteria that produce antibiotics and that live in nematodes
rNkW TIL the Doctor who claimed a link between vaccines and autism created fraudulent data for his paper and lost his medical license as a result.
BrXnb TIL Base metals like Lead can be transmuted into gold using particle accelerators. The process is so expensive that it is not economically viable. Gold can also be turned into base metals.
yVPMJ TIL There are more ways to arrange a deck of cards than there are atoms on Earth