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TIL Famed molecular biologist James Watson put his Nobel Prize up for auction in 2014 due to financial hardships. It sold for $4.1 million, and was promptly returned to him by the buyer.

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PbeJ TIL that males have disproportionately larger noses than females (at least those of European descent) - not because they tend to be larger overall, but because of how muscle is distributed differently between men and women
l70JA TIL about the triple point of water, where under specific conditions it can boil and freeze simultaneously.
jydE TIL Alexander Graham Bell didn’t invent the telephone, Italian Antonio Meucci did and Bell took the credit.
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