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TIL Angela Merkel (Chancellor of Germany) has a PhD in Physical Chemistry (Quantum Chemistry)

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VBwkG TIL: Shakespeare and Dickens both used the phrase “Dead as a Doornail” in their work. Nails were handmade, super-valuable and often re-used. Doornails were “dead” because they were bent over like staples, making them unable to be used again.
OW66 TIL The New Caledonian Crow is better at toolmaking than any primate (other than humans) and invents new tools by modifying existing ones, then passing these innovations to other individuals and generations.
dZrj TIL only one graphic novel has ever won a Pulitzer Prize: Maus, a memoir/biography of a Holocaust survivor, featuring anthropomorphic animals
nWnKo TIL the term “gaslighting” originates in a British play-turned film from the 1930s. The play was called “Gas Light” and the plot is about a husband who mentally and emotionally manipulates his wife into believing she is crazy by changing the intensity of the gas lamps within their home.
7rYEL TIL More than 1 million Holocaust victims remain unidentified