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TIL after her husband (Fritz Haber, Nobel Prize winner) returned home from the front lines, having recently helped unleash chemical weapons onto the battle field for the first time, Clara Immerwahr shot herself in the heart with his military issue pistol in protest.

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nelBb TIL that 30 million live in caves in China
d81B8 TIL although English is the de facto national language in the United States, the country has no official language at the federal level
grMly TIL during the Titanic's sinking, Lucile Carter and her children was separated from her husband William. When she met him again on the rescue ship Carpathia, "All he said was that he had had a jolly good breakfast and that he never thought I would make it." They divorced less than two years later.
LkGV TIL Freddie Mercury’s album “Mr Bad Guy” was dedicated “to my cat Jerry- also Tom, Oscar and Tiffany, and all the cat lovers across the universe- screw everybody else”
QJNeX TIL there's a surgery that claims to change the color of your eyes. The surgery involves taking a laser and burning away the melanin layer of your iris. Over the course of a few weeks, your eyes naturally turn from brown to blue as the damaged melanin is removed by your body.