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R76Dj TIL that headers of every .exe in the world starts with letters M and Z, which are the initials of Mark Zbikowski who was hired by Steve Balmer in 1981 to work on MSDOS
1rV7 TIL Chadwick(the discoverer of the neutron) was a student of Rutherford (discoverer of the proton) who was the student of Thomson (the discoverer of the electron)
wLJNW TIL that in 1700s Transylvania the element Tellerium was discovered. This element is poisonus and, upon consumption, makes the breath of its consumer wreak of garlic.
KYwOQ TIL there’s a 7-story rock in a desert near Joshua Tree in California that 1) is maybe the largest freestanding boulder in the world, 2) once had a 24ft by 36ft apartment dug underneath it, and 3) hosted 20 years of Flying Saucer Conventions starting in the 1950s
R5mww TIL a declassified FBI memo revealed that Winston Churchill privately approached a U.S. Senator in 1947 to encourage him to convince President Truman to launch a preemptive nuclear strike on Moscow