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TIL Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, was able to view his obituary before he died due to a news-outlet mishap. Due to all the horrible things he read about himself, including being called “the merchant of death”, he decided to dedicate his fortune to the creation of the Nobel Prize.

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MePOm TIL that Ned Kelly once mailed someone bull testicles after an argument
WkWMN TIL Narinder Singh Kapani (1926-2020) is acknowledged as the Father of 'Fiber optics'-a term he coined. His work in 1953 ushered in a new era of High speed Internet, endoscopy, spectroscopy etc An unsung hero, he never patented it. He NEVER won a nobel.
kOrvW TIL Not many babies are born during the graduate-student years. More than two-thirds of women in a doctoral survey agreed that the ages between 28 and 34 would be the optimal time to have a first child—the very years in which they are struggling to obtain a Ph.D
b9aXj TIL multiple American POWs in the hands of the Japanese were used as subjects in medical experiments. In one such experiment, an anesthetized prisoner had his entire lung removed, and in another, doctors drilled through the skull of a live prisoner.
g8Qb TIL Ernest Hemingway was among the first to liberate Paris during WWII BUT he went straight to his favorite bar at the Ritz, reclaimed it from Luftwaffe and spent the next week drunk