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TIL Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize, but also the first person (man or woman) ever to win the award twice and for achievements in two distinct scientific fields; Chemistry and Physics.

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9wyQr TIL that on October 8, 1871, three of the most devastating fires in world history-the Great Chicago Fire (IL), the Peshtigo Fire(Wl), and the Great Michigan Fire(MI)-broke out simultaneously, causing massive destruction.
den7 TIL In 2011, a man killed his wife inside the Walmart she was working at. Rather than close the store, they chose to just rope off the gore-splattered area while police investigated.
jXZX TIL humans may have accidentally caused climate change once before– 11,000 years ago, by killing off woolly mammoths, which transformed North American grasslands into birch forests, which in turn burned so intensely that the climate in North America changed.
pRRQ TIL blacks and Hispanics make up BOTH 96% of victims and suspects of shootings in New York City (Page 11 of 16 in the report) and 85%+ of all crime suspects according to the NYPD [PDF]
Oo7dX TIL that in 1969 during the Murry hill riots in Montreal, the entire police and fire departments went on strike in order to receive a better wage. It took the city 16 hours to give in to the demands.