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TIL Albert Einstein once used a $1,500 check from Rockefeller Foundation as a bookmark, and then he lost the book.

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b99VQ The science of the spins
9Yk6Q TIL when the band The Verve received their first record company advance, singer Richard Ashcroft spent all of the money on having a piping hot lasagne delivered to his door every day until the cash ran out
v15V7 TIL the hottest known chemical flame is produced by burning dicyanoacetylene with ozone; at 6,100 K (5,827 C, 10,520 F), it is hotter than the surface of the Sun (5,778 K).
vNKR TIL Battle of Brisbane, a 2 night riot between US military & Aussie military & civilians. Afterwards, US Sergeant Bill Bentson said “It sort of settled down & you go into a pub & an Aussie would come & up & slap me on the back."Oh, wasn’t that a good ruckus we had the other night? Have a beer on me.
yVAWl TIL the only survivor of a mid-air collision between 2 planes over Amur Oblast (that killed her husband & 36 others) fell 5,220 meters while holding onto a piece of the plane. After waiting 2 days in the woods with fractures to her arms, ribs & spine, she began to walk on the 3rd & found rescuers.