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TIL: Vitamin C was named ascorbic acid to indicate it was “anti scurvy”. (Scurvy is a life threatening disease caused by a lack of Vitamin C).

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gQVL TIL A senior scientist in the Manhattan Project was later persecuted by a member of the House Un-American Activities Committee for being “at the forefront of a revolutionary movement in physics called…quantum mechanics.”
9wvGm TIL about Jean-Marc Boivin. He was the first person to paraglide from the summit of Mount Everest!
9Z76 TIL there’s a drug that treats the underlying cause of cystic fibrosis, but remains unavailable to many due to it’s $300,000/year/patient price tag, making it one of the most expensive drugs in the world
E19kX TIL: That London Bridge /wasn't/ bought by a rich American who thought it was Tower Bridge. It was put up for sale by the City of London, because it was sinking and would have had to been demolished. It was bought by Robert McCulloch, an American billionaire, to help develop a new city in Arizona.
XklX TIL In 1964, during their first American tour, The Beatles refused to play their scheduled concert in Jacksonville until the audience was desegregated.