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TIL the Ancient Greeks considered employment (working for hire) to be degrading, "a necessary evil that took time away from leisure, politics, education, and culture, and had little positive value in and of itself."

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a8Ga0 TIL: Astronaut Anne McClain was the first person to be investigated for space crime in 2019, when her estranged wife accused her of accessing her bank account while in space. Fortunately, investigators found the accusations were false and her now ex was charged with making false statements.
yGmX TIL they didn’t know how strong the blast of the first prototype of the atomic bomb before detonating it in the New Mexico desert. They even had pre-prepared press releases for every event from ‘loud noise’ to 'among the dead were’.
695pJ TIL that Samuel Morse had high expectations of establishing himself as a professional artist. Disillusioned by failure, Morse ceased painting in 1837 at the age of forty-six, and devoted the last thirty-five years of his life to perfecting the electromagnetic telegraph.
W7e08 TIL that the Porygon episode of Pokémon caused hundreds of children to experience epileptic seizures due to rapidly flashing red and blue frames. This incident led to the Pokémon anime being put on hold for four months.
WkP69 TIL in 2018 BBC4 Gave an App to 18,000 people in the UK to simulate how a pandemic flu would spread. The results were scary accurate, and promptly ignored.