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TIL Helium-3 found in crystals on the moon could provide energy to the earth

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LB9V TIL: After WWII, the British sold off captured Enigma machines to third world countries, who still believed it to be secure, so that they could spy on them.
nW5mb TIL a chemistry student accidentally synthesized the chemical MPTP and gave himself Parkinson's syndrome.
ydOl TIL that the British war hero Admiral Nelson was taken back to England (from the Battle of Trafalgar) in a coffin made from the mast of a French ship he had sunk
oRVMR TIL Ferdinand Rudow was a German entomologist notable for the poor quality of his taxonomic work. Although he named almost 200 species of wasps, almost all of them have been synonymized with other species.
lOD1 TIL that to reach the rank of Grand Master of Memory you have to memorize 1,000 random digits in an hour, the order of 10 shuffled decks of cards in an hour, and the order of one shuffled deck of cards in under 2 minutes.