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TIL that MSG has not been found to cause any health problems

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PYpYJ TIL About Lise Meitner, a woman who described a groundbreaking phenomenon called nuclear fission in a letter to Nature Editor, she was ignored because she was Jewish and five years later Otto Hahn won a Nobel prize for the same discovery.
6Aj7 TIL That Paramore broke “The Nashville Curse” by being the first band from the Tennessee city to have an album go platinum in 20 years.
GYo9j TIL that Jedediah Smith, an explorer of the American West, survived a bear attack. The animal had smashed his ribs, torn off his scalp, and chewed one of his ears off. He calmly told a friend to sew his scalp and severed ear back on. After 10 days, he was again leading his expedition.