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TIL Robert Millikan disliked Einstein's results about light consisting of particles (photons) and carefully designed experiments to disprove them, but ended up confirming the particle nature of light, and earned a Nobel Prize for that.

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loXxK TIL about Dorothy Gibson, an actress that survived the Titanic sinking and later went on to star on a film depicting the sinking wearing the same dress she had used during the real thing.
ADM6a TIL The historical name of Czechia was "Bohemia". Boiohaemum, as it was originally known in Latin, comes from the Germanic "Boi-haima", meaning "home of the Boii".
X4Wk TIL that a group of sloths is called a ‘bed’ of sloths.
j6eEE TIL the U.S. freight rail network moves one-third of all U.S. exports and roughly 40% of long distance freight volume, competing directly with the trucking industry
v1eEL TIL A nurse treated female patient's genitals like a ventriloquist's dummy in front of colleagues. He was examining in front of three colleagues when he “pulled her labia apart and said ‘Hello my name is [Patient A]’, treating her labia like a puppet”, a Nursing and Midwifery Council panel heard.