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TIL of Lise Meitner, a physicist who was nominated 19 times for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry between 1924 and 1948, and 30 times for the Nobel Prize in Physics between 1937 and 1967. She was never awarded the Nobel Prize and was instrumental in the discoveries of nuclear fission.

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QNMJd TIL of Jonathan Wild, In 18th century London he was a thief-taker, a private individual hired to capture criminals. However he used this status to take out rivals to run his own criminal gang. He was so trusted he even got the reward for turning in a thieve from £40 to £140
4voX TIL that the Doctor who said that the MMR vaccine caused Autism (Andrew Wakefield) was paid £400,000 to do so by a group of lawyers looking to sue the manufacturers.
oBZaY TIL of Marjorie McCall who "lived once and was buried twice". When she died the first time of illness, grave robbers tried to steal her ring by cutting off her finger, waking her from her coma. She left her grave to live on until she died (again) some years later
vnYx TIL That the Nazi Salute is said to have originated from the Roman Empire, but no surviving Roman art or text describes the salute. 18th century French painters labeled the gesture as the “Roman Salute”, and was adopted by European fascists in the early 1900s.
xVKy0 TIL About Dr Gisella Perl, an inmate and female doctor at Auschwitz. She was instructed to tell Joseph Mengele of any pregnant women, so that he could experiment on them. Instead, she tried to save as many lives as possible by terminating pregnancies, and doing late stage births, without any drugs.