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TIL In 1977 a Chinese woman with no medical degree anonymously found a malaria cure. 38 years later, she was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine.

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j6KPM TIL that Mass is the only one of 7 fundamental measurments we still use a physical example of.
RaG6 TIL That during and shortly after the JFK assassination a woman was seen and photographed holding a camera and stayed after most witnesses fled the seen. She has never been identified.Nor has the footage she may have took been found.
Wk9n8 TIL that Bhutan uses a "Gross National Happiness" index instead of the gross domestic product, because the government thinks that the collective happiness of Bhutan's population is more important than the country's market value
Z8PRB TIL In 1966, the first chess game between computer programs was played. The game took nine months and was played over telegraph.
PY0Qn TIL of William James Beal. In 1879, he started one of the longest running experiments in botany, testing the seed viability of 21 plant species over long periods of time. The experiment is scheduled to finish in 2100, when the last bottle of seeds will be tested.