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TIL Robert Oppenheimer's brother Frank founded the Exploratorium Science Museum in San Francisco

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5Y05B TIL that a 2017 study about fitness trackers found higher rates of error when the trackers were used by people with darker skin tones.
KeD4 TIL that during the embryo development 3 sets of kidneys develop, but only one set remains to become the permanent adult kidneys.
Q1O9 TIL In 1994, Oakville, WA experienced a rainstorm in which gelatinous blobs fell onto a farm. The blobs were examined and found to contain human white blood cells but they did not contain nuclei, which is something human white cells do have. Theories persist, but none have been proven correct.
JYXXm TIL that there is an Antarctic dialect of English, which has developed among researchers in Antarctica who have their own slang and speech patterns. Since this is one of the few linguistically isolated areas in the world, it is being used to understand how dialects originate.
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