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TIL that the discovery of elements 95 and 96 (americium and curium) was first announced by physicist Glenn Seaborg on the children’s radio show Quiz Kids, in response to one of the children asking whether any new elements had been discovered at the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago during the war

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W7wb4 TIL Tattoo’s were status symbols of wealth in Victorian Britain.
RJl9 TIL that MLB pitcher Daniel Norris lives off just $800 a month, despite a million dollar salary. He says “Who am I to deserve that? What have I really done?” and “I’m actually more comfortable being kind of poor.”
eprD TIL that there isn’t an accepted name for that noise-making party favor that rolls out when blown into.
W7QXL TIL that Vincent van Gogh was a failed missionary and art school dropout, suffered from psychotic episodes and delusions, drank and smoked heavily, spent time in psychiatric hospitals, lived with an alcoholic prostitute, and was a commercial failure when he died by suicide at age 37.
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