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TIL Jocelyn Bell Burnell, the astronomer to discover pulsars, was denied the Nobel Prize in preference of her thesis supervisor; a man who believed they were caused by aliens.

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Rm59 TIL Manufacture and distribution of telephone directories (Yellow Pages) produces over 1,400,000 metric tons of greenhouse gases and consumes over 600,000 tons of paper annually.
9w5G6 TIL A Nashville music promoter tried to open a for-profit museum about the JFK assassination at the Dallas Texas School Book Depository building in the 1970s. Floors of the building stayed empty until the Sixth Floor Museum opened in 1989 in response to the many visitors who visit Dealey Plaza
4Xbpo TIL Florence Nightingale's god-daughter was beaten to death on a train in 1920 and her murder has never been solved.
eg7D TIL that the red-tailed hawk’s screech is commonly dubbed over the bald eagle’s in television and movies.
VM8J8 TIL: The chemical that makes your pee smell funny after eating asparagus is the same chemical thats added to natural gas to give it that signature stench. Its called mercaptan.