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TIL that after Whitehead and Russell proved that 1+1=2 in Principia Mathematica, they commented that it was “occasionally useful”

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d8VoB 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
b9ZM0 TIL: Sarah Breedlove, an orphan born to freed slaves, became the 1st self-made female millionaire in US history around early 1900's by inventing & selling homemade hair-care products through her own factory. She even built a beauty school to train sales agents. $1 million then = $13 million today.
wL4MM TIL Jeffrey Uhlmann (the creator if the unscented transform) besides developing tracking and navigation algorithms with an Oxford doctorate in Robotics also wrote, directed, produced and acted in Lucha Libre films
R5N76 TIL in 1933, Albert Einstein, who left Nazi Germany for the United States, suggested the formation of the International Relief Association. Now known as the International Rescue Committee (IRC), it has provided assistance to millions of refugees and displaced persons across some 40 countries.
0d8B1 TIL the Minnesota Twins moved to Minneapolis one year after the Minneapolis Lakers left for LA. The Twins used the name of the state because they didn't want to alienate potential fans in St. Paul. At first, they were to be named the Twin Cities Twins, but MLB objected to that name.