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TIL that a Chemistry Prof Accidentally Killed Herself by Allowing 2 Drops of Organic Mercury to Land on Her Gloved Hand

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8kvK TIL Sleeping Beauty (in 1634) gets a sliver, falls apparently dead, is hidden by her father, found unconscious and raped by a king out hunting, gives birth to two children who wake her up, so the king burns his wife alive to be with her (after the wife tried to kill and eat the babies)
LkEB0 TIL that, in 1920s Paris, James Joyce would get drunk, start fights, and then hide behind Ernest Hemingway for protection, screaming, "Deal with him, Hemingway!"
b6rPZ TIL: George Bredig escaped the Nazi regime when Princeton offered him a job in 1940. Scientists and professors who did not swear an oath to the regime were fired. He managed to save his research and made significant contributions to electro chemistry. The Nazis lost 26% of their university chemists.
QJQ6e TIL The New Oxford American Dictionary made up the fake word "esquivalience" and inserted it into their dictionary. This false entry was included to expose any people who might copy Oxford's content and use it in their own work.
x6vG1 TIL that Pope Francis owns a copy of Diary of a Wimpy Kid translated into Latin