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TIL that the 2014 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to the three men who invented the blue LED. Until their discovery in the 90s, white LED lights couldn’t be produced.

by whatilearned May 16, 2022, 5:56 am

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The discovery of the largest Nazi treasure hoard of World War II in the abandoned mine near Merkers in Germany. Over 100 tons of Gold, at today’s prices, the gold bars alone would be worth over six billion USD.

by HistoryBuff May 5, 2022, 5:09 am

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TIL that Lewis and Clark were accompanied on their famous Voyage of Discovery by a dog named Seaman

by whatilearned April 20, 2022, 6:21 pm

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TIL Keeping cats on ships has been a long held seafaring tradition due to their efficiency as a form of pest control and the supposed luck they brought to vessels. It is thought that cats were spread around the world by groups such as the Ancient Egyptians, Vikings, and Age of Discovery explorers.

by whatilearned April 8, 2022, 5:58 pm

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TIL of the discovery of chemotherapy. During WWII it was discovered that mustard gas reduced white blood cell counts. In the 1940s, two pharmacologists examined the effects of mustard gas in treating lymphoma in mice. They then treated a patient with nonHodgkin’s lymphoma with the chemical agent.

by whatilearned March 12, 2022, 8:58 am

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TIL after its initial discovery and isolation in London in 1928, penicillin was first mass-produced in 1942 using mould from a cantaloupe in a market in Peoria, Illinois. Just in time to prepare for the June 1944 WWII Allied invasion at Normandy.

by whatilearned March 11, 2022, 12:18 am

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TIL that Honda sold a rebadged version of the 90s era Land Rover Discovery in Japan

by whatilearned March 10, 2022, 3:32 pm

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TIL The discovery of the Higgs Boson was announced in Comic Sans font, causing outrage on Twitter – but also highlighting that the benefits of Comic Sans, which has been clinically proven to make reading easier and is used in treating dyslexia.

by whatilearned March 7, 2022, 3:12 pm

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discovery of benzene

by CopyPastaArchive March 4, 2022, 12:06 pm

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TIL that the discovery of viruses started from a mysterious disease that affected tobacco crops in the Netherlands at the end of 1800s. A Dutch microbiologist named Beijerinck proved that filtrated sap from plants was still infectious, and called it “contagious, living fluid”.

by whatilearned February 17, 2022, 4:03 pm

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TIL that Ancient Egyptian priests sold sacred animal mummies to be offered to the gods; the discovery of some fake cat mummies with only a single bone or sticks inside has led some researchers to believe priests created fraudulent mummies to cash in

by whatilearned February 1, 2022, 12:47 am

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TIL that many ancient papyri (and knowledge about Ptolemaic Egypt) were discovered after a workman, frustrated with having discovered yet another crocodile mummy, threw it and broke it, leading to the discovery that some ancient mummies were stuffed with written papyri

by whatilearned January 31, 2022, 11:21 pm

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