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TIL the $35 that scientific journals charge you to read a paper goes 100% to the publisher and 0% to the authors. If you email a researcher and ask for their paper, they are allowed to send them to you for free and will be genuinely delighted to do so.

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b9oJj Recently, while looking at the vibrant lights of Hong Kong through a bus window, I noticed for the eleven-millionth time those little dots and that black band running along the edge of the glass. “What are these?” I wondered. So when I got home, I called up a major automotive glass manufacturer to find out.
vPxRB TIL Dunkin' Donuts (dba Dunkin') was renamed from "Open Kettle" to "Dunkin' Donuts" in 1950. An architect working for the restaurant was inspired by the idea of dunking doughnuts into coffee. In 2018, the name was changed to Dunkin'.
0dOZL TIL the US Air Force had delays awarding John Chapman a Medal of Honor in part due to US Navy SEALs blocking it. They would have to admit they left a soldier behind. When the award became inevitable, the SEALs nominated the soldier who left Chapman for the same award for the same battle.
R5gW7 TIL of Benjaman Kyle, an amnesiac man discovered in 2004 who had no memories of his life and could not even recall his name. It was not until 2015 that his identity was discovered through DNA testing, and there is still a twenty-year gap in his life history with no known records
P1Zpn TIL when Anthony Quinn was filming The Guns of Navarone he was so taken by the location shooting of Rhodes, an island in Greece, that he bought property there and there is an area still called Anthony Quinn Bay.