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TIL That Marie Curie is the only person to ever win two Nobel Prizes in differing science fields; chemistry and physics.

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ADQGx TIL people used to believe toothaches and other dental problems were caused by "tooth worms" that lived in our teeth and consumed them from the inside out.
OoLEY TIL In August 2006, NASA announced that they had lost all of their original tapes of Apollo 11's TV transmission of the first humans landing on the moon
P1pMn TIL: The pangolin's tongue attaches to the bottom of it's sternum, which is also elongated deeply into it's abdomen.
j6ZgR TIL The Leaning Tower of Pisa is slowly straightening out
oBpLE TIL the United States only lost 1 of its first 50 conflicts. Every other war was either a US victory or had no clear victor. The first official defeat was in Red Cloud's War (1866) against the Lakota Tribe. Since then, the US has lost 5 out of 65 conflicts, for a total 95% win rate.