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TIL about the time Karen tried to speak to the manager of a submarine

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OGLdY TIL Chinese Prime Minister Wellington Koo earned multiple degrees from Columbia in New York. Koo's 1912 PhD thesis was "The Status of Aliens in China" and Columbia has a fellowship bearing his name to doctoral students in social science focused on East Asia
GYL0j TIL: There are frameworks being researched for “mind uploading” the functioning human brain to a synthetic substrate related to the development of neural prosthetic technologies—raising concerns, as noted, about beliefs of continuity of identity. pdf
60L7 TIL that during the global hop shortage of 2008, the Samuel Adams Beer Company sold 20,000 pounds of their excess hops to over 200 craft breweries, at cost. This helped prevent the breweries from going out of business.
5Ra8 TIL that in 1974, Basil Brown, a 48-year-old health food advocate from Croydon, England, drank himself to death by consuming 10 gallons (37.85 litres) of carrot juice in ten days, causing him to overdose on vitamin A and suffer severe liver damage.
loN1 TIL Despite it winning a Grammy, Foo Fighters didn’t like One by One after recording it