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7rO97 TIL Dmitri Mendeleev, a Russian chemist and teacher, devised the periodic table. In 1867, one day after working for three straight days, he got the inspiration from a dream: "Awakening, I immediately wrote it down on a piece of paper.” He named his discovery the “periodic table of the elements.”
rNkBx TIL: The Sagrada Familia Church in Barcelona has been illegally built without a permit for 137 years.
e0G1J TIL that a couple days before the deadly eruption of Mt. Pelee in 1902, the town of St. Pierre was plagued by in invasion of giant centipedes and pit vipers, claiming the lives of 50 people.
NXyLJ TIL the name of Ishi, known as the 'last wild indian' is an adopted name. In the Yahi culture, he one cannot speak his own name until introduced by another Yahi. When asked his name, he said: "I have none, because there were no people to name me"
epy94 TIL a finance worker at a multinational firm was tricked into paying out $25 million to fraudsters using deepfake technology to pose as the company's CFO in a video conference call that included several other members of staff, all of whom were in fact deepfake recreations. Everyone he saw was fake.