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TIL of the only person ever to return a Pulitzer Prize, journalist Janet Cooke, due to her fabricating a story of an 8-year-old heroin addict which triggered a city-wide search

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l7RLr TIL Joan Robinson was denied Nobel Prize in Economics because she supported Mao's Economic Policies and of all 93 Economics Nobel Prize winners only 10 winners have been cited more widely than Robinson. Future Nobel Prize winners Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen were the students of hers
Wk4gX TIL some of Marie Curie's books and papers from the 1890s are considered too dangerous to be handled, because of their radioactive contamination. They are kept in lead boxes, and those who wish to consult them must wear protective clothing.
MBW7 TIL toilet paper companies are increasing margins by 1) shrinking the size of each “square” 2) increasing the size of the tube 3) shrinking the width of the roll and 4) decreasing the number of sheets per roll, all to make up for other paper products’ sales falling