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TIL that dogs have been trained to drive cars

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pvaO TIL that JJ Thompson won the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering that electrons act as particles, while his son GP Thompson won the Nobel Prize for discovering that electrons act as waves.
xVaxB TIL pop stars like Justin Timberlake sing "may" instead of "me' because it gives the impression that their performance is more powerful that it actually is. The 2000s trend was an attempt to co-opt the signifiers of intensity without actually needing to use them.
BgaOy TIL Carolina Reaper is the hottest pepper in the world, with 2.2 million Scoville units. It is 22 times hotter than a habanero. It was bred in Rock Hill, SC, by Ed Currie, proprietor of the Puckerbutt Pepper Company.
l8lB TIL that the Norwegian army has knighted a penguin
DQnDV TIL in 2017, a team of scholars, linguists, and computer scientists at the University of Padua analyzed 150 Italian novels written by 40 authors. They used different methods to determine that Domenico Starnone, a male writer, is the probable author of the Elena Ferrante novels.