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TIL in World War I, Germans used a non-lethal gas that could penetrate American gas masks and cause vomiting. When soldiers removed their masks to vomit, they were exposed to the fatal gasses already in the air.

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LVXP TIL that kid computers in the 80’s to mid 90’s came with BASIC computer program training, because people worried that every citizen needed to know computer programming or they would be left out of the computer revolution.
Br76L TIL that in 2012, a computer error caused all the fireworks in the San Diego's Fourth of July Celebration to go off at once, instead of over 18 minutes
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