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TIL IKEA made an ASMR video to promote college dorm furniture.

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Eb5p TIL Herbert C. Brown’s “wife, bought him the book ‘The Hydrides of Boron and Silicon’ by Alfred Stock as a graduation gift. The book was chosen…because - at $2 - it was the cheapest in the University of Chicago bookstore.” In 1979, he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work with Boron.
9YXJp TIL during the 60’s at a Nevada test site, Billy Waugh and a small team successfully parachuted in nuclear bomb parts, assembled it, and had it ready to arm in 14 minutes. (This tactic would later be considered for use during Vietnam conflict.)
WpeX TIL there are millions of chemical bombs lying in our oceans after being dumped there after the first and second world war, because authorities didn’t have a way to dispose of them properly.
4e86 TIL that during a CNN online chat with President Clinton in 2000, a prankster managed to log in as the President following a technical glitch and typed “I wish to see more porn on the Internet”.
RVBj TIL Political Adverts are banned in UK. Parties are allowed an equal section of hours to broadcast. Preventing money out of politics [pdf]