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TIL: when an older scientist loses touch with scientific reality and goes berserk the polite term to describe this is “going emeritus”

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oB7OK TIL that Chewbacca was given bodyguards against hunters whilst filming Return of the Jedi. It was feared that local hunters might mistake him for Bigfoot and shoot him.
gmP8 TIL that the US has invaded Canada twice, and lost both times.
VMo14 TIL HSBC Bank was caught helping Mexican drug cartels launder millions of dollars. No one was jailed.
wkpP TIL that the Captain of the HMS Beagle nearly rejected Charles Darwin as a passenger on the basis that the shape of Darwin’s nose indicated a lack of determination
X06rE Today I learned that cigarettes and gasoline were used as forms of commodity money in Europe in the immediate aftermath of World War II.