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E1Lrp TIL that the transformation of common metals into gold, a seemingly impossible goal attempted by alchemists for centuries, is now entirely possible using either a nuclear reactor or a particle accelerator. However, the process is so expensive that it is functionally useless.
N76JQ TIL that Indian-American nurse Sandeep Kaur made a ton of money on the stock market, quit nursing for gambling, in which her obsession took her into a world of thrill and crime, and the “Bombshell Bandit” was born.
YQ0W Today I learned many Korean folk tales begin “Back when tigers used to smoke…”
mMaO TIL despite rising sea levels, Finland’s geographic elevation is actually rising relative to the ocean
KOMvG TIL of a 2015 case of a woman with Dissociative Identity Disorder who had some blind personalities. Even with her eyes open, EEG showed brain activity associated with sight was absent when a blind alter was in control. When a sighted alter assumed control, visual brain activity returned