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TIL that MRI machines were originally called NMRI machines but they were forced to drop the first word - “Nuclear” - due to its negative connotations associated by the public.

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E1OQ7 TIL Fang Xiaoru, who refused to serve the Emperor Yongle who usurped his nephew, was executed by 'waist severing' and wrote the character 'usurper' 12 times with his own blood after being cut in half.
yQeoV TIL if you invested $1 each in stocks and gold in 1801, by 1998 you'd have over $500K in stock and 78 cents in gold.
awlLM TIL that in 1988 the UK banned a song for saying two groups of Irish people had been tortured into wrongful convictions. 3 years later it was found to be true and they were released.
MvEb TIL Frank Sinatra never learned to read sheet music his whole career
aKyy TIL: Jeff Daniels only got paid $50,000 for his role in Dumb and Dumber, while Jim Carrey got paid $7mil.