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TIL that Nobel laureates Richard Kuhn and Wolfgang Pauli were schoolmates from 1910-1918. Kuhn would later win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1938 and Pauli was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1945.

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5YRmp TIL that Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens was part of the Navy codebreaking team that, in 1943, fatally targeted the flight of Japanese Admiral Yamamoto, the architect of the Pearl Harbor attack. In 1932, Stevens witnessed Babe Ruth's called-shot home run in the Yankees-Cubs World Series.
worBo TIL: About a Western European tradition called ‘Telling the bees’ in which bees are told of important events, including deaths, births, marriages and departures and returns in the keeper's household.
P8LG TIL HIV infection can be prevented if antiretroviral drugs are taken within 72 hours after exposure. This is due to the length of time it takes the virus to infect and proliferate.
OG69R TIL scientists have confirmed that the largest body of water in the known universe is 12 billion years old. It surrounds a quasar, and has the equivalent of 140 trillion times all the water in the world’s ocean.
8vBL TIL that semen contains mood altering chemicals that can reduce depression, increase affection and help you sleep and a study found that women who regularly have unprotected sex are less depressed.