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TIL: Umwelt, or the self-centered world of different organisms

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764x TIL that when Koichi Tanaka of Japan won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2002, he became the first to only have a bachelor’s degree. Tanaka was so unknown that he was on the second-lowest job level at the obscure Shimadzu Corp. The embarrassed scientific-instrument maker immediately promoted Tanaka.
jr0Q TIL that in or about May of 2013, two Filipino women escaped from a Saudi diplomatic compound in Virginia, alleging enslavement. The compound is owned by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Armed Forces Office and enjoys diplomatic immunity.
AGD7 TIL roughly 3% of German houses on Google Street View are blurred because their owners opted out of the program
vo6j TIL After complaints about baggage wait times, Houston airport moved the baggage claim farther away. The walk took longer than the wait and the complaints dropped to nearly zero.
kpR4 TIL of Mary Turner, a black woman killed in 1918. A mob hung her upside down from a tree and set her on fire. Still alive, a member of the mob cut her stomach open with a knife. Her unborn child fell on the ground, where it was stomped on and crushed. Finally, her body was shot hundreds of times.