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Today I learned that Einstein won the Nobel Prize not for his famous equation E=mc^2 but for the discovery of the photoelectric effect.

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yQALp TIL about Terry A. Davis, creator of the free operating software Temple OS. Diagnosed with schizophrenia in his early 20's, Davis created the software because he stated that God commanded him to. He was able to finish most of the software by himself before his untimely death in 2018.
8bnZ TIL ESPN won an emmy for the creation of the superimposed yellow line representing the first down line for American football games.
AN0yo TIL that a 4-year-old was arrested for witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials. Little Dorothy Good spent 10 months chained in a prison cell after confessing to a local judge that she had a pet snake that could talk.
1alj4 TIL about the heroism of Teddy Sheean, of the Australian navy. During WW2, his ship was torpedoed, and Japanese planes shot at survivors in the sea. Sheean strapped himself to an antiaircraft gun on the sinking ship and fired at the planes, downing at least one. He was still firing as he drowned.
j61Ep TIL the population of the North Sentinelese living on North Sentinel Island is estimated to only be between 50 and 100 people.