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TIL Einstein wrote a letter to Tesla congratulating him on his life’s work in 1931

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jDjM TIL you could survive indefinitely on nothing but potatoes, butter and water.
Egd70 TIL Mao Zedong's successor Hua Guofeng tried to set up his personality cult. New songs and dances in praise of Chairman Hua were performed and a national campaign saturated China with posters showing Hua sitting with Mao. Hua even altered his appearance and calligraphy to resemble Mao
X0aEr TIL That John Tyler Was The Only US President To Not Be Buried With The American Flag And The only US president To Be Buried With The Confederate Flag
d87g8 TIL Da Vinci discovered that severing the spinal column of a frog resulted in instant death. But it seems he felt disturbed by hurting living things, stopped working on live animals, and became a vegetarian. In fact, he loved animals so much that he would buy birds at the market and let them go.
DJWV TIL Every year the British Medical Journal publishes an issue full of joke science, like one paper that said men die before women because they are stupid. But years later these articles are cited by scientists as real, and this is causing a lot of problems.