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TIL Chien-Shiung Wu's “Wu experiment” won Nobel prize, but it was given to her male colleagues, completely ignoring the work she put on it.

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M8M0 TIL that children of identical twins, while legally cousins, are genetically half-siblings.
p04G TIL some languages have a distinct style of speech that is only used when the speaker is in the presence of their mother in law, called “avoidance speech”.
69097 TIL that Keanu Reeves has been secretly funding children's hospitals for years. He reportedly created a private foundation that aids children’s hospitals and cancer research without associating his name with it. "I don't like to attach my name to it, I just let the foundation do what it does."
6ZwQ TIL American workers burnout faster than workers in any other country
mxNKy TIL that the Finnish island of Aaland threatened to leave the EU if they were not permitted to continue to use and sell a tobacco product called ‘Snus.’ Snus is considered a major source of income for the island and part of their national heritage.