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TIL about Nobel Disease aka Nobelitis - Tendency for Some Nobel Winners to Embrace Fringe Beliefs Later in Life

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v1Der TIL about Beena, "a form of marriage used in pre-Islamic Arabia in which a wife would own a tent of her own, within which she retained complete independence from her husband".
pYOde TIL-1954 US explodes Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll, which accidentally becomes the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated by the US. (March 1st)
Bga8W TIL that one of the top convenience stores in Japan was founded in Ohio, and that there are now only 2 locations open in the United States
9oMB TIL In 1946 the Winecoff Hotel, advertised as “absolutely fireproof”, was the site of the deadliest hotel fire in U.S. history. 119 people died spurring significant changes in U.S. building codes. A 24-year-old grad student won the 1947 Pulitzer for a shot of one occupant’s leap from the fire.
N7E8b Til On April 14th 2010 the main eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland began, impeding air travel in all of Europe for days