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TIL that Marie Curie is the only person to ever win Nobel prizes in two different areas of science

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awLY9 TIL that squirrels can lower their terminal velocity and turn their bodies midair, so they can survive super high falls
JJGk TIL Dust from the Sahara Desert travels across the Atlantic Ocean helping fertilize soil in the Amazon rainforest.
VBNWB TIL that George Michaels "Fastlove" and Will Smiths "Men In Black" released a year apart, both sampled the same song, Patrice Rushens "Forget Me Nots" from 1982
VBdEB TIL of Henry Trigg, a 17th century grocer whose will requested to have his body placed in a coffin in his barn's rafters. Copies of his will were sold, and WWI soldiers later stole his bones. A horse-riding school replaced them with horse bones, explaining that having no bones would lose revenue.
vdBr TIL Canadian F-18s have a “false canopy” painted on the underside of the plane to confuse enemy pilots during dogfights.