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TIL that we found vitamin B3 on an asteroid

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Eg5lP TIL Billionaire Chuck Feeney donated over $8 Billion to different causes supporting health science and improving the human condition. He spent his last days in a rented apartment in San Francisco with remaining assets of $2 Million.
OorG4 TIL: Benjamin Franklin wrote a letter entitled "Fart Proudly" as a response to the Royal Academy of Brussels calls for serious scientific papers.
4XXkw TIL that Thad Roberts, an intern at NASA, stole roughly $21 million worth of moon rocks from NASA with the aid of his girlfriend. He loaded a 600 pound safe containing ~101 grams of samples and wheeled it out of the complex, destroying 30 years of the chief scientist’s research in the process.
bARZ TIL Joseph Goebbels killed 6 of his own children, before committing suicide
4kbjR TIL that the whistle sound some people make when pronouncing words with “s” is called a whistling sibilant, which is a type of speech impediment. It’s caused when air escapes over the teeth in a way that creates a whistle during sounds like “s” and “z.” Some people casually call it a “whistling S.”