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TIL Soviet scientists accidently turned lead into gold during their tests with an experimental nuclear reactor

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GAkwG TIL - Phrenology is a pseudo-science, where adherents think that measuring the bumps on peoples skulls can predict things about their mental traits
X06Q TIL that in Soviet Union people with PhD in Atheism were important.
vnoL TIL A man, after surviving 33 days lost at sea, finally came ashore by chance on the Marshall Islands only to discover that his uncle, believed lost at sea 50 years ago, had washed ashore on the same island and started a family there.
8wLX TIL that after the drummer of The Who passed out during a live performance in 1973, the lead singer asked if anyone could fill in. 19 year old Scot Halpin stepped up to the plate. They pulled him on stage and he finished the remaining 3 songs. He hadn’t played drums in over a year.
lBnN TIL a Swiss national is serving a 4 year jail term in UAE, after 3 poppy seeds from a bread roll he ate at Heathrow airport were found on his clothes.