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TIL that Stephen Hawking once made a bet of $100 with Gordon Kane that physicists would not discover the Higgs boson. After losing the bet he lamented the discovery, saying it made physics less interesting.

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rR19o TIL the present-day Washington State was originally called "Columbia", but Congress forced the name change to "Washington" in honor of George Washington and to avoid confusion with the nation's capital, the District of Columbia
oBp8 TIL that Cyberdyne, the company responsible for the genocidal robots in the Terminator, is a real company that creates artificial robotic limbs.
pQa8 TIL in Japan there is a family that has run the same hotel for nearly 1,300 years … or 46 generations
WkD8N TIL that the Poison Ivy rash itself is NOT contagious. You can only get Poison Ivy from another person if they still have the oil from the plant on them.
x60A1 TIL Robert F. Kennedy's assassin is still alive and has been denied parole 17 times