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TIL that Kristen Bell was the voice of Gossip Girl

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4XAo6 TIL Werner Forssmann, a physician, risked his own life to show that cardiac catheterization could work. He cut a hole in his arm and inserted a catheter into a vein, not knowing if the catheter might pierce a vein. He was later awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
wLBn6 TIL about that Computer Processor companies like Intel essentially make one type of chip, then test individual processors and “bin” them, thus separating the high, middle, and low performing ones. These are then sold as i3, i5, and i7.
1aX7d TIL that many inventions credited to Thomas Edison were in fact stolen from other inventors. Edison ruthlessly patented inventions from other inventors so he could claim them as his own work.
69pOl TIL that acidic algae makes fish toxic and kills tons of dolphins and whales every day
9YnpG TIL that Henry Starr claimed to hold the record for most bank robberies in America. He wrote & starred in a movie about his robberies, "A Debtor to the Law," in 1919. Two years later he was shot & killed robbing a bank in Arkansas.