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TIL that during WW1 Marie Curie attempted to donate her Gold Nobel prize medals for the war effort but the French National Bank refused to accept them.

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7r8nO TIL that the Texas City Refinery explosion was the result of a hydrocarbon vapor cloud being ignited by a runaway diesel engine. The vapor served as excess fuel (sucked through the air intake) creating a positive feedback loop. As the engine overheated, it backfired igniting the surrounding cloud.
L1ep TIL The idiom, “whatever can go wrong will go wrong”, better known as Murphy’s law, was named after an actual person. Captain Edward A. Murphy, an engineer for the U.S Army. This saying was coined after his repeated problems with his G force experiment.
wL7QE TIL that a plant named aconitum can easily kill people, be cautious while hiking
6A4m TIL that Married…With Children was developed as a reactive contrast to The Cosby Show. Where the Cosbys were shown as the first affluent, loving, black family on tv, the Bundys were the first who were all white, poor and hated each other. The original working title was Not The Cosbys
b9N00 TIL of Miriam Rodríguez Martínez, a mother whose daughter was kidnapped and murdered by the cartel, who took it upon herself to capture the men responsible one by one.