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TIL of the term "Nerd Prom" and the three events it refers to: San Diego Comic-Con, White House Correspondents' Dinner and American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting

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E10ox TIL that Göttingen, a small German university town, was for centuries one of the most productive centers of mathematics in history, developing geniuses such as Gauss, Riemann and Hilbert. But its fall took less than a decade when its stars were pushed abroad by the Nazis.
b9yr4 TIL The typical American leaves the workforce at age 63. In China, the average retirement age is 55
rR5Z4 TIL soft serve ice cream became popular after Tom Carvel's ice cream truck got a flat tire. He started serving the melting ice cream to vacationers. Two years later he opened his first soft serve ice cream shop at the same site where his truck broke down.
9YM8p TIL Alabama has a higher human development index than Italy - if Alabama were a country it would rank as 28th most developed in the world, contrary to its reputation as an undeveloped region of the United States.
woMP8 TIL the mirrors on the James Webb Space Telescope took 9 years to make, with the first blanks being made in 2004, and all mirror segments being finally delivered to the site of final assembly in 2013.