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TIL that the atlas corporation made a rap music video of the Large Hadron Collider and what it does and how it works

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Y7aQx TIL - That during Apartheid in South Africa you were forbidden to have relations with someone of another race. The Boers developed the "Pencil Test"; if a pencil would stay in your hair when pushed in you were declared as "black" and could only have relations with other "blacks".
Nkx8 TIL “Serenity” was the first high definition movie to be cracked and torrented.
VMLa8 TIL that there is a court in England that convenes so rarely, the last time it convened it had to rule on whether it still existed
rRrae TIL that the first academic paper proposing edging as a way to battle premature ejaculation was written by a doctor whose last name was Semans.
JYoaV TIL that Henry Bessemer, the engineer largely credited with the invention of modern steel, also invented or contributed to embossed postage stamps, long sheets of plate glass, military weapons, and a method for extracting sugar from sugar cane. He eventually earned nearly 130 patents