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TIL that Werner Heisenberg worked to develop an Atomic Bomb for Nazi Germany.Claiming that he deliberately attempted to misguide German efforts, transcripts of secret recordings after the war revealed however that it was actually ignorant of what was required to succeed.
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TIL That, to prove that stomach ulcers were caused by bacteria and not stress, a scientist drank a beaker of the bacterium. He both developed stomach ulcers and won the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
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TIL Jessie Roberta Cowan (aka Rita), from Kirkintilloch, Scotland, is known as the Mother of Japanese Whisky. She married Masataka Taketsuru, who had come to Scotland to study Chemistry and the art of whisky-making, and she followed him back to Japan, where she provided moral and financial support.
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TIL that “slut shaming” is mostly performed by women. According to the New York Times, “studies have shown that the more attractive an adolescent girl or woman is, the more likely she is to become a target for indirect aggression from her female peers”.
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TIL Bulgaria was the only Axis power allowed to keep the territory it gained in World War II, permanently acquiring Southern Dobruja from Romania.