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TIL there is evidence of soldering in Mesopotamia
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TIL North Korea has its own operating system (RED STAR OS) and it looks like Apple’s OS X
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TIL of the Finn-men, Inuit fishermen who made it as far as Scotland by kayak. There was so much concern about European fishermen kidnapping them that in 1720, the Netherlands explicitly outlawed it.
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TIL that in the US, small business owners are incentivised to buy large, heavy cars rather than small, efficient ones.
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TIL the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki almost exploded in flight before being dropped
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TIL that Andre Geim won the parodistic Ig Nobel Prize in 2000 for his work on using magnetism to levitate a frog. 10 years later, his experiments regarding graphene won him the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics. This makes him the only ever recipient of both the Ig Nobel and Nobel Prizes.