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TIL: That the 11/4/1954 is 'The most boring day in history'.

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6Zym TIL that Einstein won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics not for his work on the famous E=mcˆ2 equation or special relativity, but for his work on the photoelectric effect; an effect that forms the basis of photosynthesis.
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lyR5 TIL There was once a 50 man pub brawl in a British pub over who would get the last bag of dry roasted peanuts