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TIL Marie Curie was not originally nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics she won. The nominating committee only cited her husband, Pierre; Pierre wrote them a furious letter threatening to decline the award unless his wife was also recognized

by whatilearned January 24, 2022, 7:47 pm

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A comment I wrote after post nut clarity

by CopyPastaArchive January 24, 2022, 4:24 pm

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Did you know that Sean Connery wrote an entire book on the toilet?

by cringeyjokesman January 23, 2022, 4:16 am

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I wrote this for a friend who hates furries

by CopyPastaArchive January 20, 2022, 11:54 pm

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TIL Dolly Parton wrote ‘Jolene’ and ‘I Will Always Love You’ on the same day. Both hit #1 on US Country Charts, went Platinum, and made Rolling Stone’s Top 500 Songs of All Time. ‘I Will Always Love You’ was named the #1 Song of the Rock Era in “The Top 500 Songs of the Rock Era: 1955–2015”.

by whatilearned January 20, 2022, 7:33 pm

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TIL Alfred Nobel establish the Nobel Prize after seeing his own obituary. He amassed a fortune by inventing dynamite, but was also hated for it. In 1888 a French newspaper mistook his brother’s death for his and wrote “The Merchant of Death is dead”, which prompted him to establish the Nobel Prize.

by whatilearned January 19, 2022, 6:24 am

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TIL rocket scientist Dr. Wernher von Braun wrote a science fiction novel in 1949 called Project Mars: A Technical Tale. The novel takes place in the 1980s and is about the first human mission to Mars and their encounter with benevolent Martians on the planet, including the Martian leader, Elon.

by whatilearned January 19, 2022, 5:08 am

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TIL the West Virginia town of Vulcan couldn’t get any funds to repair a failing bridge during the Cold War so they wrote to the USSR and requested aid. Once someone from the Soviet Union came out to survey, the State government then passed legislation to have funds to repair the bridge.

by whatilearned January 16, 2022, 6:47 pm

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TIL in 1940, a 14 year old Fidel Castro wrote a letter to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt asking “If you like, give me a ten dollars bill green American, in the letter, because never, I have not seen a ten dollars bill green American and I would like to have one of them.”

by whatilearned January 16, 2022, 2:08 am

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TIL Brian Wilson was obsessed with The Ronettes’ “Be My Baby.” He had copies of it all over his house, compared it to Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, and called it the best song ever recorded. He wrote “Don’t Worry Baby” for Ronnie Spector, but Phil (who was aware of the obsession) rejected it.

by whatilearned January 14, 2022, 8:25 pm

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TIL “Here Comes The Sun” (Beatles’ most streamed on Spotify) had zero contribution from Lennon, as he was recovering from a car crash. George Harrison wrote & sang it.

by whatilearned January 13, 2022, 4:54 pm

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TIL about Ismail al-jazari wrote the “Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices” where he described 50 mechanical devices along with instructions on creating them. He has been described as the father of robotics and modern day engineering.

by whatilearned January 12, 2022, 7:53 pm

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