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TIL of Bone Music: in the Soviet Union, people craved Western pop music but vinyl was scarce, so they printed records on used x-rays

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QJO1L TIL of Herman Francis Mark, an Austrian scientist and son of a Jew, who chose to flee Austria in 1938. He clandestinely bought platinum wire, worth roughly $50,000, which he bent into coat hangers while his wife knitted covers so that the hangers were able to be taken out of the country
Oo9oL TIL that snakes have bellybuttons.
Vy1k TIL of the mysterious death of Gloria Ramirez, who was dubbed the “Toxic Lady” when 12 medical personal who came in contact with her when she was bought into the emergency room fainted due to a strange smell emanating from her.
dDew7 TIL about the Region-Beta Paradox, the phenomenon that people can sometimes recover more quickly from more distressing experiences than from less distressing ones.
WQmd TIL if an electron were the size of our solar system, it would differ from a perfect sphere by less than the width of a human hair