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TIL that Einstein was rewarded Nobel Prize not for his works with relativity, but for discovery of photoelectric effect.

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8aKBa TIL that people would have sex in graveyards to “laugh in the face of death”, during the Black Death. It became illegal and people were threatened with excommunication. It was thought that sexual immorality caused the plague, so prostitution and adultery were outlawed.
GAkK5 TIL what would happen if you were born blind then got vision later in life.
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