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TIL Chadwick (the discoverer of the neutron) was a student of Rutherford (discoverer of the proton) who was the student of Thomson (the discoverer of the electron).

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R7W5l TIL that the oldest song in the world was written 3,400 years ago, based on a ‘sheet’ of music which was discovered in the ancient Syrian city of Ugarit.
jGKQ TIL that in Portland in the 1800s there were so many trees cut down that people could use the stumps as stepping stones to keep out of the mud while they walked.
XO16 TIL that when Hitler forced the French to surrender during WW2 he did so on the site where the Germans were forced to surrender in WW1. Not only that but he found the same train carriage used in WW1 and forced the French to sign a surrender in that same train carriage.
rR58e TIL Unit 731 was a secret Japanese Research site in occupied China during WWII. They used thousands of Prisoners as guinea pigs in horrific experiments to breed and develop biological and chemical weapons. After the war, the US overlooked these atrocities in exchange for their records and results
kvn7 TIL there was a pirate named Black Caesar, he was an African tribal war chieftain, enslaved and escaped. He later went on to build a powerful piracy ring, where he kept a harem of over 100 women, and later served as a chief lieutenant on Blackbeard’s ship “Queen Anne’s Revenge”