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TIL No more stinky socks if someone invents shoe insoles made with copper

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0w8DL TIL when Max Planck began his studies in Munich in 1874, his physics professor told him to not study physics because it was a mostly fully figured out field of science with little prospect of development and only two unsolved problems.These problems ended up being radioactivity and quantum physics.
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VBy1D TIL that no one can really agree on what the building in the California state seal looks like or what real-life building it's based on.
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