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0dbBM TIL the 1944 Nobel Prize went to male German physicist Otto Hahn solo for the discovery of nuclear fission, despite the fact he had done the work in collaboration with Lise Meitner, a German Jewish woman forced into exile who had in fact even been the first to use the term 'fission' and explain it
E1v4o TIL More than 2,500 left-handed people are killed every year from using equipment meant for right-handed people. That’s Crazy!!
wMM TIL that some wasps are smaller than single celled organisms. They miniaturize sucessfully by foregoing nuclei in their brains.
8LyL TIL When Henry Ford was shown newsreel footage of the Nazi concentration camps, he “was confronted with the atrocities which finally and unanswerable laid bare the bestiality of the prejudice to which he contributed, he collapsed with a stroke
BNKb TIL After Christian Slater took the place of River Phoenix in “Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles” he donated his entire paycheck from the movie to all of River’s favorite charities.