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TIL there is no Nobel Prize for Mathematics because Alfred Nobel did not want one.

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8BWL til the guy who designed bikes for Tron is designing bikes for Lotus
QJLE9 TIL that the Higgs Boson's media nickname "The God Particle" came from physicist Leon Lederman. He wrote a book and wanted it titled "The Goddamn Particle", poking fun at how hard it was to find. The publishers changed the title to "The God Particle" and the nickname stuck.
9EA6 TIL that Kim Jong Il wanted to solve the North Korean hunger problem by breeding giant rabbits. A German farmer supplied 11 rabbits to help him get started, but it was later discovered Kim Jong Il ate all of them at his birthday party
jNvPE TIL: Rodents cannot vomit which is why poison is such an effective way of getting rid of them
daEE TIL That the NRA has a lightsaber in their “Treasure Collection” of Guns