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TIL in 1957 five US military personnel agreed to stand directly under a nuclear detonation

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PYoNO TIL About Einstein's "Year of Miracles". In one year he published 3 papers that changed modern physics. The first about the particle theory of light (won him his Nobel Prize), the second led to people accepting the existence of atoms, and the third introduced special relativity (E=mc^2). He was 26.
NXeeM TIL Carbonara didn't exist before WWII and likely came from US Military supplies of eggs and bacon in Italy during WWII.
R5p51 TIL of Bartolomé de las Casas, a 16th century Spanish priest who, in order to alleviate the suffering of Indigenous slaves in Spanish America, advocated using African and European slaves for at least most of the labor involved.
P1LQL TIL: that WD40 Literally stands for Water displacement 40th formula
8oYa TIL Danny McBride’s grandmother invited her friend’s over to watch the premiere of her grandson’s TV Show “Eastbound and Down.” Afterward, none of her friends talked to her anymore.