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TIL Watson and Crick, famous for discovering the DNA double helix model, essentially stole their information from female scientist Rosalind Franklin.

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WJPL TIL - Alf Adams came up for the idea of the ‘strained-layer quantum well laser’ walking on the beach with his wife. He paused for a moment and asked her to stop talking for a moment to let him think, these lasers are now used in almost every household today
yQnQa TIL that during Ted Kaczynski's (The Unabomber), sophomore year at Harvard, in 1959, he was recruited for a psychological experiment that, unbeknownst to him, would last three years. The experiment involved psychological torment and humiliation.
njJ9 TIL A Microsoft researcher has come up with a great algorithm to depixel pixelart.
xV5WB TIL chicken produced in US has been banned in the EU since 1997 as it is washed in a strong chlorine solution. The chlorine washing is popular in US due to poor hygiene standards in abattoirs.
9vKr TIL 23,000 North Koreans have defected to the South, and only 2 South Koreans have defected to the North.