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TIL There’s a Mysterious Village That Was Discovered In Canada, That Is 10,000 Years Older Than The Pyramids

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W70o9 TIL Graduate student Jocelyn Bell Burnell and her supervisor, Antony Hewish, built a radio telescope to observe quasars in 1967. Their discovery won the 1974 Nobel Prize – for Hewish. 50 years later, Burnell was awarded $3 Million in the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
g8Zb TIL Hall of Fame boxer Sugar Ray Robinson backed out of a fight because he had a dream that he was going to kill his opponent in the ring. After a priest and minister convinced Robinson to fight, Robinson went into the ring and killed his opponent, Jimmy Doyle.
Z8koo TIL that Will Rogers World Airport, in Oklahoma City, is the only airport in the world to use the word "World" in its name - despite not having any international flights
KOBMJ TIL Andes Chocolate Mints was founded by George Andrew Kanelos and originally named Andy's Candies. Male customers disliked gifting candy that had another man's name to their wives and/or girlfriends, so Andrew changed the name.
d06d TIL: Paris only has one stop sign in the entire city!