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TIL after 13 years of trying to find the structure of a protein, scientists created an online competitive game that asked gamers to try and solve it. The structure was found in 3 weeks.

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OQDL TIL a 1913 storm called the White Hurricane “battered four of the five lakes, killed 250 people, sunk 12 ships and caused $120 million in damage. “It was the most ferocious storm ever recorded on the Great Lakes at that time or since.”
0GX5 TIL Zach Galifianakis once went to a KKK rally for an interview and asked the grand wizard if he’d seen Big Momma’s House 3, it was the “highlight of my career” he stated
7O9L TIL that because spiders are actually quite resistant to radiation whilst their prey species aren’t, the spider numbers around Chernobyl have exploded, as the spiders can catch the now-weakened prey insects more easily, whilst being resistant to the radioisotopes present in their food
Brmoe TIL the Mount Everest isn't called by that name by the locals of the Himalayan region. The Tibetans named the mountain "Chomolungma" (Holy Mother Mountain) while the Nepalese call it "Sagarmatha" (Goddess Sky Mountain). The Chinese use the either the Tibetan name or Shengmu Feng (Holy Mother Peak).
wLZm1 TIL about Nameless, Texas. After submitting six names in order to get a post office and having all six rejected, citizens responded by stating, "Let the post office be nameless and be damned!" The government accepted this suggestion and the town of Nameless was born.