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TIL sand dollars are magnetic

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O7A4 TIL the small fish that swim next to sharks are ‘pilot fish’. They swim next to sharks to avoid being preyed on and in return sharks do not harm them as they kill their parasites - thus having a “mutualist relationship”.
p8RRG TIL in 1951, Natalie Carbone Mangini became the first female scientist at Westinghouse. They meant to hire a man but they misread her resume and gave her an interview when she showed up. As a radiochemist, she worked on the world's first full-scale atomic reactor and the first nuclear submarine.
xxWk TIL de Lafayette “hero of two world’s” was invited by Pres. Monroe to go on a 3 month tour visiting every state in the US in honor of the 50th Anniversary of the US, he was met by cheering crowds everywhere, and brought Thomas Jefferson to tears at their reunion.
89va TIL Michael Jordan, aka The Chicago Dynamo, was fined $5000 for each game he wore his signature Air Jordans. Nike paid all the fines.
epx7J TIL Goldman Sachs released a report questioning whether manufacturing cures is a "sustainable business model"