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TIL only 31% of college graduates know that nitrogen makes up most of the Earth’s atmosphere.

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xZkB TIL that an 8-year old girl had the Grand Wizard of the KKK as a pen pal
Grl1 TIL during World War II, the US sent former major league baseball catcher and OSS agent Moe Berg to attend a lecture from Dr. Heisenberg. Berg was armed with a pistol and had orders to shoot Dr. Heisenberg if his lecture indicated that Germany was close to completing an atomic bomb.
yVPB8 TIL about the Allied Trachenberg Plan which helped defeat Napoleon. This involved avoiding direct confrontations with him, but to instead go after his commanders bit by bit. This would buy the Allies time to gather an army and eventually overwhelm Napoleon.
OQna TIL that during WW1 Marie Curie attempted to donate her Gold Nobel prize medals for the war effort but the French National Bank refused to accept them.
ep6mJ TIL that the day after John Hinckley Jr. attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan. Hinckley's Röhm RG-14 six shot revolver was given to the ATF which was able to trace the gun's origin in just 16 minutes to being purchased at Rocky's Pawn Shop in Dallas, Texas, on October 13, 1980.