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TIL Mithridates VI spent his whole life taking small doses of poison to build an immunity to it. When he was finally captured, he attempted to kill himself with poison but couldn’t because he was immune to it.

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gMmn8 TIL that Korean Air accidentally strayed into Soviet Airspace, leading to the plane being shot down. To prevent such a tragedy, US President Ronald Reagan declassified a critical military tech and that is how we got GPS for civilian use.
loRXK TIL About the Bath School disaster, also known as the Bath School massacre, was a series of violent attacks perpetrated by Andrew Kehoe on May 18, 1927, in Bath Township, Michigan. The attacks killed 38 elementary schoolchildren and 6 adults, and injured at least 58 other people.
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wLYJ1 TIL It is approximated that there are twice as many non-native speakers of English than native speakers. As a result, though Mandarin has the largest number of native speakers, English has the largest total number of speakers as well as largest number of non-native speakers.