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TIL Mr. Roger’s middle name was “McFeely”

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wgK7 TIL Famed molecular biologist James Watson put his Nobel Prize up for auction in 2014 due to financial hardships. It sold for $4.1 million, and was promptly returned to him by the buyer.
pY9Xe TIL that prior to human settlement, the only land-based mammal on Iceland were arctic foxes.
8aDkG TIL that steel shortages in WW1 is what led women to abandon the corset and transition into bras as we know them today.
x9ew TIL that bacteria called actinomycetes cause ‘the smell of rain.’
PBEL TIL that both sides of the First Congo War ate pygmies “as though they were game animals.”