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TIL There are no SI Units named after women

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6jdm TIL of Kiyoko Matsumoto, who in 1933 committed suicide by jumping into a volcanic crater on the island of Oshima. Japan. This started a trend in Japan, and in the year after her death 944 other people (804 men and 140 women) leapt into the same crater
GYxZE TIL that the higher and lighter secondary rainbow of a double rainbow has its colors reversed, i.e., Vib G. Yor instead of Roy G. Biv.
57v9 TIL that had Batman & Robin been successful, WB had already planned a fifth film, which would have been titled Batman Triumphant. Directed by Joel Schumacher, it was to feature Scarecrow and Harley Quinn as its villains, with a possible hallucinatory appearance by Jack Nicholson as the Joker.
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