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TIL Marius Stan, 'Bogdan' from 'Breaking Bad', is a chemist in real life. He has a PhD in Chemistry, is a computational physicist and the Intelligent Materials Design Lead in the Argonne National Laboratory’s Applied Materials division.

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0dr4y TIL of the humorous and ineffective sorting algorithm Miracle Sort, where it keeps checking an array until it becomes sorted. It requires external force (a miracle) to change the array in some way so it becomes sorted, or that the array is already sorted to begin with.
oBoQR TIL about Leo, an early socio-interactive robot built in 2002. Leo was programmed with psychological theory and spatial scaffolding. It is able to communicate by perceiving expression, gesture, speech, and thus responds appropriately with equal expression, gesture and speech.
vPYwR TIL that cappuccino got its name from Italian friars' robes. The color of the espresso mixed with frothed milk was similar to their color.
Y7vpZ TIL in 2013 the president of Finland Sauli Niinistö voluntarily took a 20 percent pay cut due to the country's difficult financial situation
G9l5 TIL The United States put hundreds of thousands of Filipinos in concentration camps, which resulted in the deaths of over 275,000 natives.