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TIL Nvidia A $3T Company Was Created In A Denny's Booth

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AXAo TIL Viagra dissolved in water can make cut flowers stand up straight for up to a week beyond their natural lifespan.
aw5g0 TIL more than a dozen vulnerable people were involuntarily injected with plutonium as part of the Manhattan Project, in order to learn the human biological reaction to radiation poisoning
gMlK8 TIL playing an instrument engages every major area on both sides of the brain, making it one of the best ways to engage your brain with benefits even at older ages (more in comment)
dbwB TIL the CIA rigged the 1958 Nobel Prize selection for literature by buying thousands of copies of “Doctor Zhivago” in Europe. The CIA also printed pocket copies of the book and distributed them to Soviet tourists in the West.
Xo0P TIL that, during a Japan Air Lines flight from Paris to Tokyo, a massive UFO was spotted flying alongside the airplane, with the event captured on radar data. Officials from the FAA, CIA, and FBI all declared it the first radar data of a UFO.