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TIL - Proton-enhanced nuclear induction spectroscopy (PENIS), also sometimes called Cross Polarisation (CP), is a nuclear magnetic resonance technique invented by Michael Gibby and Alexander Pines while they were graduate students

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EoEP TIL that an acre is the amount of land that can be plowed by a pair of oxen in one day.
WoWB TIL Vincent van Gogh’s masterpiece Starry Night depicts the view outside his sanitarium window, and that he was not impressed with the now beloved work
n9Kr TIL that a woman faced fraud charges after a DNA test showed she wasn’t the mother of her own children. She was in fact a chimera.
e08wJ TIL For over five hundred years the Russians wondered what kind of people their Arctic and sub-Arctic subjects were. "They have mouths between their shoulders and eyes in their chests," reported a fifteenth-century tale
PRpn TIL That Arnold Schwarzenegger was the reason AMC made a civilian version of the Hummer and he bought the first one off the assembly line in 92’