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TIL the actress/journalist Lisa Lu Yan is the only person who is a member of both the 87 member Hollywood Foreign Press Association that awards the Golden Globes and the 9,900+ member Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that awards the Oscars.

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0wj8M TIL That silver miners in the 1800s would discard their old work jeans in the mines. These jeans now can be sold for prices over $30,000, Levis going for the most! Many people have started hobbies going into the silver mines in hopes of finding them.
nemrG Climate change has not been kind to Antarctica. According to a comprehensive new study, global warming has already bled the frigid continent, which is larger than Europe, of about 2.7 trillion tons of ice. This enormous amount of ice has already raised global sea levels by as much as a centimeter.
l7o55 TIL the term 'computer' used to mean humans who performed tedious, repetitive calculations by hand. Many of whom were women and some became the early programmers in a time when men refused to code because it was seen as "woman's work"
QJdVd TIL in 2016, a K5 security robot accidentally ran over a 16-month-old toddler and then drove off, in what’s surely one of the first robotic hit and runs.
QBLa TIL that when the atomic bomb was first tested, one of the physicists, Enrico Fermi, had a wager as to “whether or not the bomb would ignite the atmosphere, and if so, whether it would merely destroy New Mexico or destroy the world.”