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TIL That Sabrina Pasterski built an engine airplane at 14 y/o, at 16 became the youngest person ever to fly their own plane; she graduated MIT in 3 years with a 5.0 GPA and is now a 24 y/o harvard student getting a Ph.D. in high energy physics.

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ekYJ TIL that when asked about his thoughts on Ben Affleck playing Batman, George Clooney responded by saying “I am the least qualified person to comment on anyone playing the role of Batman since I so terribly destroyed the part”
XE8yP TIL of Leona Woods, the only woman physicist on the team which built the world's first nuclear reactor as part of the Manhattan Project. She became a mother during the Project but hid her pregnancy as not to miss work. Afterwards as a professor, she authored >200 papers in physics and astrophysics.
5Yy88 TIL that Argentina is the country that consumes the most soda every year, with 155 liters per person per year.
WkVVY TIL in WW2 after getting dumped in the south pacific, a few comics of the phantom(among other brands of objects) started being drawn by the natives in tribal shields
rRWme TIL about Roselle, a seeing-eye dog that led her blind owner, Michael Hingson, down 1,463 steps from the 78th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001. Dog and owner exited just before the South Tower collapsed, and both survived.