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TIL that In February 1939, Lise Meitner described a groundbreaking nuclear phenomenon in a letter to Nature editor and called it Nuclear Fission. Five years later, a Nobel prize was awarded to Otto Hahn for the discovery of fission; a word he never used in his original paper.

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Qk0k TIL that police officers mark your tail light or trunk with their fingerprints when they pull you over, just in case something goes bad for them. Should the officer be attacked or “go missing” the fingerprint will provide evidence that can confirm the perpetrator’s vehicle.
0w0GM TIL that in Japan, some 7.53 million computers at offices and local governments and 6.38 million at households were still using Windows 7 as of January 2020, comprising around 20 percent of all active Windows computers in the country
LQ6Km TIL that in Goiânia, Brazil, in 1987 a radiotherapy device was stolen from an abandoned hospital. The people who found it broke it open, exposing the 93 g of radioactive caesium chloride and leading to the contamination of 250 people, 20 of whom experienced radiation sickness and 4 of whom died
KOQmR TIL Pat Morita who played "Mr. Miyagi" from the Karate Kid series was an internee at the Japanese-American concentration camps
XEL8X TIL Bananas and Tomatoes are technically berries whilst Strawberries and Raspberries are not. This is because the technical classification of a berry is any fruit derived from a single flower with one ovary, and both raspberries and strawberries stem from flowers with more than one ovary.