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ADRBo TIL The 1936 Nobel Prize for Physics went to Carl D. Anderson for the discovery of the positron. While a graduate student at Caltech in 1930, Chung-Yao Chao was the first to experimentally identify positrons through electron–positron annihilation, but did not realize what they were
JwLm TIL that virtually no one in Europe seriously believed the Earth was flat before Columbus’ voyages–this view comes not from historical fact, but from a Washington Irving book
4XmAg TIL that the brain displays a similar pattern of chaotic activity during meditation as it does during the psychedelic experience. The findings, published in the journal Neuroscience, indicate that meditation is associated with increased brain entropy
b9d0N TIL a human egg cell is visible to the naked eye – about the size of a period in standard-size font.
K5b4 TIL that Georgian painter Niko Pirosmani fell in love with a French dancer so hard, he sold everything he owned and bestowed her with thousands of roses. His romantic gesture inspired the popular Russian song A Million Scarlet Roses (1984).