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l7pWK TIL The first person to discover viruses was the plant biologist Martinus Beijerinck. Before that, scientists thought that they were a type of small bacteria.
e0xAJ TIL humans dont actually have five senses, we have other senses like balance, heat, pain and the passage of time. Humans actually have at least 14 senses.
WWdL TIL that in 1946 Kodak customers complained about film developing cloudy. Kodak investigated & found the corn husks used for packing was radioactive. They discovered something that was not public knowledge; the packaging was exposed to fallout from the world’s first nuclear bomb explosion.
d8M7Q TIL that a time capsule was buried in the old Nickelodeon Studios in 1992 containing items deemed important by kids, such as a Nintendo Gameboy, a Back to the Future VHS, and Michael Jackson CDs
wYaW TIL an electric bell has been running off the same battery for 170 years and no one knows what the battery is made of.