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b9mXj TIL A statistician spent years writing a science fiction novel to teach university statistics. Even though he didn't know anything about writing fiction, he got an illustrator to create graphic novel strips for his story which contained the equivalent of 60 research papers
x6rGo TIL about Cathay Williams, the first African-American woman to serve in the United States military. She joined in 1866 under a male pseudonym of William Cathay.
oBVJK TIL due to the fact that NASA Astronauts were not allowed to take gifts or endorsements, GM leased several Astronauts Corvettes during the 1960s and 70s for just 1 dollar.
W7J0Y TIL Loofahs are actually plants
E10ox TIL that Göttingen, a small German university town, was for centuries one of the most productive centers of mathematics in history, developing geniuses such as Gauss, Riemann and Hilbert. But its fall took less than a decade when its stars were pushed abroad by the Nazis.