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TIL Using your middle initials in your name make you perceived as smarter

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Ov76 TIL that scientists have developed a Laser of a very specific wavelength that is able to refrigerate by causing the object hit to release a photon which carries away more energy in the form of light than it absorbs.
XQdD TIL that wasp stings are alkaline but bee stings are acidic
kLVW TIL there is a theory that Tommy Wiseau, director of “The Room” is actually D.B. Cooper, a plane hijacker who escaped in the 70’s. This is due to Tommy’s shady past, which he has often covered up.
4kera TIL Tracey Chapman performed her biggest hit Give Me One Reason 6 years before it's release on Saturday Night Live in 1989
Me4L7 TIL that Vincent Van Gogh might have been murdered by a teenage bully who dressed as a cowboy.