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TIL the Teletubbies are canonically racially diverse and they live in the "Tubbytronic Superdome"

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PY4mL TIL Carl Wieman, recipient of the 2001 Nobel in Physics, delivered a lecture outlining how he created a new state of matter called Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC). Einstein predicted BEC in 1925, and Wieman's techniques to make it in 1995 involved laser cooling and magnetic trapping on atoms
9YQQp TIL the famous Nokia Tune originated from a solo guitar composition named Gran Vals by composer Francisco Tárrega in 1902.
OY1L TIL that you can not enter the majority of Arab countries if you have an Israeli stamp on your passport.
BrZxK TIL before becoming popular, the Beatles had several stints playing clubs in Hamburg, Germany. One period came to an end because Paul McCartney and drummer Pete Best were arrested for arson and deported. They were caught setting fire to a condom in a concrete corridor.
5YKDr TIL the US military tried to develop a "gay bomb" that would use an aphrodisiac chemical to cause enemy troops to have strong homosexual feelings, which was supposed to damage morale and discipline in a non-lethal way.