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TIL Starting as a joke, a Duke university researcher brought a portable scanning electron microscope into her home. Then the organization realized it wasn't a bad idea as she used it for virtual outreach activities

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a8ARo TIL that Eddie Murphy, Danny DeVito, Chevy Chase, Bill Cosby. John Cleese, John Candy, Steve Martin, Jeff Goldblum and John Lithgow were all considered for the part of Doc Brown in Back To The Future.
BrJny TIL that sea snails are the most venomous creatures on earth, and can swallow fish whole.
Wk1oo TIL Hugh Everett III invented the "many worlds" interpretation of quantum mechanics, and asked to be thrown in trash after death.
16kAX TIL - JFK's Pulitzer Prize winning book Profiles in Courage was largely ghost-written by his speech writer Ted Sorensen. When journalist Drew Pearson joked about it on ABC, JFK's father, Joseph Kennedy, threatened to sue unless they issued a retraction and apology, which ABC did.
evMn TIL trains are terrible at going uphill. The steepest incline in England is 1.5° and trains need additional engines pushing in the back to help climb it.