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TIL that Einstein didn't wear socks

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djEQ TIL During WWII, George de Hevesy used aqua regia to dissolve the Nobel Prizes of German physicists Max von Laue and James Franck to prevent them being confiscated. He left the solution in his lab, where it was ignored. After the war, he precipitated the gold out and the medals were recast.
b91Gj TIL a Russian experiment attemping to domesticate foxes found that when the animals were selectively bred for 'tameability' they not only bred animals which behaved more like dogs, but they quickly began to look like them too.
1aPP TIL an ancient Roman poem was deemed so explicit that a full English translation was not openly released until the late twentieth century. The offending line? “I will sodomize you and face-fuck you”.
mPnR TIL studies show that people eat worse than they normally would if the restaurant offers healthy alternatives. Merely seeing a healthy menu option satisfies the goal to be healthy.
nWDnP TIL Play-Doh was a wallpaper-cleaner for 40 years until a kids started playing with it in the 1950s. The company rebranded it as a toy and has sold over 3 billion cans since.