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TIL a 1970s high school art project ceramic jug, found in a barn covered with chicken poop, was mistakenly identified as 19th century work and priced at $50,000 on Antiques Road Show.

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78Gd7 TIL that German scientists in the 1930s were the first to conceive of the atom bomb, but their research was abruptly ended in 1939 when the government conscripted them. The Nazis never got close to making a functional atom bomb because their scientists were in the battlefield.
R5ZGj TIL Ada Lovelace, the First Computer Programmer, Was the Daughter of Romantic Poet Lord Byron and Mathematician Anne Isabella Noel Byron. Lord Byron was a renowned Romantic poet known for his passionate and extremely scandalous lifestyle, as well as masterpieces like Don Juan and She Walks in Beauty
D1xMg TIL After crashing during the 1984 Dallas Grand Prix, Ayrton Senna's excuse was that the "wall must have moved". Nobody believed him, until he insisted it was checked. The wall had moved less than half an inch nearer the track as a result of an earlier crash.
rPLe TIL: Of the U.S. false flag operation called Operation Northwoods, it was meant to justify war with Cuba by attacking our own country.
pL7A TIL the only photographs showing the moment Robert Kennedy was shot were not used in court but sealed for twenty years. When the photographer asked to have them back he was told they were accidently burned. Reappearing after a lawsuit they were then stolen from the courier transporting them.