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TIL there is evidence of soldering in Mesopotamia

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mjbE TIL North Korea has its own operating system (RED STAR OS) and it looks like Apple’s OS X
78rlL 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.
rNWvM TIL that in the US, small business owners are incentivised to buy large, heavy cars rather than small, efficient ones.
AD5Vo TIL the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki almost exploded in flight before being dropped
Wk0YL 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.