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TIL that the second woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics, Maria Goeppert Mayer, had to work without pay for most of her career, and was referred to as S.D mother in newspaper headlines when she won her Nobel.

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yQArX TIL: what it means to measure immortality (sometimes called "lifespan") of an electron, in experiment that failed to disprove immortality assumption, but has offered its minimum lifespan at 66,000 yottayears, which is more than five-quintillion times the current age of the Universe
neZaG TIL Boeing bought 17 Airbus A340 from Singapore Airline to convince them to buy it's 777 plane in 1999
Lkjod TIL Angelina Jordan, a 14 y.o. singer who won Norway's Got Talent in 2014, always performs barefoot because when aged 6 she met a girl living on the streets without shoes- Angelina gave this girl her shoes and vowed never to appear on stage again wearing shoes until all the world’s children had them
EBP0 TIL there is a US Navy ship named after a mountain, which was named after a president: the USS Mount McKinley
9YBr6 TIL Starbucks sell a "Babyccino" for your child (a cappuccino without the espresso) or a "Pupaccino" for your dog (a cup of whipped cream)