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

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W5Zd TIL that Kwanzaa and Festivus were both made up in 1966
5V0eP TIL of Dr. Krueger who discovered that sections of our brain can fall asleep while remaining conscious.
DQo6J TIL that the 1948 United States Presidential Election was the first election to have primary and general election debates, with Thomas Dewey debating Harold Stassen in the GOP primary while Socialist Nominee Norman Thomas debated Socialist Workers Nominee Farrell Dobbs in the general election.
9YLRX Today I learned, you can legally call gay hair dressers “faggots” in France!
7AeL TIL if China, India and Brazil would adopt Euro 6 standards for vehicle emissions by 2015, NASA says the world’s particulates could be reduced by about 85 percent