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TIL Marie Curie’s notebooks from the late 19th century are still too radioactive to be handled

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BJRk TIL in 1973 the United States organized the overthrow of the democratically elected Chilean government and established a military dictatorship that committed mass genocide
gMW9 TIL Google has a “unsupervised” neural network that learned what a cat was while searching the Internet
gMAML TIL that Papa John's infamous slur usage happened during a conference call where marketing experts were trying to teach him how to not damage his public reputation any further.
lMmV TIL: Jules Verne in 1863 made a book called “Paris in the 20th century” that has everything from glass skyscrapers, automobiles, hippies, computers, the magnetic train, modern music and so on. Publishers back in the day rejected it because they felt it was too unrealistic.
8WxG TIL the Honey Badger will literally eat just about anything, not only that but their jaws are strong enough to chomp through tortoise shells. They’re fiercely intelligent and have learned how to use tools