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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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16Zy7 TIL Jaws directly contributed to a surge in shark hunting, and consequently a drop in shark populations. Peter Benchley regretted writing Jaws, "Knowing what I know now, I could never write that book today. Sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges."
OGBgY TIL: Coca-Cola no longer includes the actual Cola nut
R5lK9 TIL that in 1970 there was a fictionalized bout between heavyweights Rocky Marciano and Muhammad Ali. They both were filmed sparring 75 one minute rounds, and the results were determined using probability formulas entered into a computer. This simulation inspired the plot for Rocky Balboa (2006).
y9XM TIL people started wearing pants because they made it easier for soldiers to ride horses
jNVrn TIL that Roger Boisjoly was an engineer working at NASA in 1986 that predicted that the O-rings on the Challenger would fail and tried to abort the mission but nobody listened to him