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TIL that despite being advised by his professor not to pursue physics because “almost everything is already discovered,” Max Planck went on to develop quantum theory and win the Nobel Prize

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9YAZM TIL about serial killer Robert Hansen who would kidnap women, then release them in the woods in Alaska and hunt them with a rifle and knife
pWPp TIL that Shenandoah park ranger Roy Sullivan was struck by lightning seven times - and survived each jolt. He died by shooting himself in the head.
8akP TIL that in rare cases, popping a pimple in the so-called “danger triangle” can lead to facial paralysis, brain infections/meningitis, and even death.
oBMOK TIL about "Black Death" aka Henry Johnson, "the One-Man Army Who Fought Off Dozens of German Soldiers During World War I".
dAZr TIL Stephen Colbert, at the White House Correspondents Dinner, threw insults at the president and his unreceptive audience for nearly half an hour. Nearly the entire crowd was furious at him by the end, and his speech was ignored by most of the media for weeks afterwards