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TIL That Optical tweezers exist and are capable of holding single molecules for study

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OoyYL TIL that President John Adams died on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. His last words were “Thomas Jefferson survives” unaware that Jefferson had passed away hours earlier.
v17O8 TIL Many Romans, distrustful of the unreliable Italian post office, make weekly trips to the Vatican just to post their important letters.
DQBkY TIL that if America’s coastal watershed counties were considered an individual country, they would rank number three in GDP globally, behind the U.S. as a whole and China. [economic value of living near water]
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XElNX TIL of Bernarr MacFadden (1868 to 1955) a famous publisher who helped popularize body building and urged people to enjoy sex and to avoid processed foods and "pill-pushers".