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TIL all "warranty void if removed" stickers are illegal in the US since 1975

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0w8DL TIL when Max Planck began his studies in Munich in 1874, his physics professor told him to not study physics because it was a mostly fully figured out field of science with little prospect of development and only two unsolved problems.These problems ended up being radioactivity and quantum physics.
ZppBo TIL Edith Renfrow Smith celebrated her 108th birthday on July 14, 2022. The first African American woman to graduate from Grinnell College, Mrs. Smith is a "superager" who has retained her mental faculties even into her hundreds. She lives in Chicago.
5Yx18 TIL Jackie Kennedy's pink suit worn when her husband, John F. Kennedy, was assassinated is locked away in the National Archives until at least 2103.
4XaV5 TIL: an estimated 400,000 hectares of cannabis grows wild in the Chui Valley (Kazakhstan), supplying 93% of Russia's marijuana
b9y1p TIL Using lasers, Stanford scientists transformed hydrocarbon molecules in oil and natural gas into pure diamonds.