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TIL about Aaron O’Connell, who in 2010 created the worlds first quantum machine, showing us that objects visible to the naked eye can be in two seperate states at once

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OGPQ6 TIL that when crossword puzzles were first introduced to the US, they became an object of cultural hysteria. Newspapers warned of a crossword craze gripping the country's minds. The trend was described as an epidemic, a virulent plague, and a national menace.
YApB TIL A Physicist Made His Cat The Co-Author Of a Paper Because He’d Accidentally Written “We” Instead of “I” Throughout the Paper and Couldn’t be Bothered Changing It.
OoEML TIL the population of English rabbits in Australia grew from 24 in 1859 to an estimated 10 billion in the 1920s!
OomaR Today I learned that Branch Rickey, who broke baseball's color barrier by hiring Jackie Robinson, had a daughter who flew military aircraft in World War II. As a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots, she ferried bombers and fighters to free up male pilots. Those trailblazing Rickeys!
9MVM TIL that in Inception, if you take the first letters of the main characters’ names - Dom, Robert, Eames, Arthur, Mal and Saito - they spell “Dreams”. If you add Peter, Ariadne and Yusuf, the whole makes “Dreams Pay”, which is what dreams do for a mind thief.