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TIL that the U.S. was one of the original 17 who signed the Treaty of the Metre (Convention du Mètre) and given two of the original forty cylinders that is know as the International Protoype Kilogram

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5VKaB TIL: The Allies raided a Nazi chemical company in 1944 and interrogated a chemist due to the amount of radioactive material involved. However, they learned that he was not working on nukes, but radioactive toothpaste known as Duramad, using radiation to kill germs. Some samples are in a museum now.
Y78YW TIL A microscope can simply be reversed to make a telescope. Both telescopes and microscopes were in use in Holland by the end of the sixteenth century
lBwG TIL that Vol De Mort means ‘Flight From Death’ in French, a phrase used to describe the quest for immortality.
BDoK TIL Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary wrote a massive screenplay in 1987 called ‘The Open Road’, which would later get split into two separate screenplays called 'True Romance’ and 'Natural Born Killers’.
rNOOw TIL that Uri Geller bought a small island in Scotland because he believes - among other things - ancient Egyptian treasure is buried there