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TIL one of the inventors of the modern MRI machine first tested it on himself. Dr. Peter Mansfield of Nottingham University went inside the full-sized prototype in 1978, producing the first MRI scan of a live patient

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Bmye TIL From 1975 until 2013, Russia kept at least 10,000 more nuclear weapons than the US. The US dramatically reduced its number of weapons after 1975, to the point where Russia once had over 26,000 more weapons. In 2013 the numbers became nearly equal for the first time in decades.
BrQ0r TIL that Ruth Coker Burkes cared for hundreds of people dying of AIDS, abandoned by their families because of their "sin".
NPX6 TIL everyone in the Jetsons was white - there was not a single person of colour shown in any of the 75 episodes
KOmBB TIL Chile's Atacama Desert is among the very driest places on the planet, so arid that rain may not fall on it for decades or centuries at a time. This makes the hostile landscape about the closest thing we have to Mars on Earth – and scientists just made a big discovery about it.
wZm7 TIL a person with $20,000 in student loans paying at a 6% interest rate will pay almost $100 per month in interest alone, or more than $3 per day