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TIL forgotten smallpox vials were found in a cardboard box in Maryland in 2014, over 30 years after its eradication

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xVXDB TIL After dead lifting a world record 500kg (1102lbs), strongman Eddie Hall suffered a bruised back, lack of vision, and bleeding from the ears, eyes, and nose
XEb0P TIL that from 1983 to 1987, the two members of the US House of Representatives from Maine, John McKernan and Olympia Snowe, were boyfriend and girlfriend. They later married after McKernan was elected Governor.
D1kVg TIL that chimney sweeps use to use live geese to sweep chimneys.
EOPP TIL: Sophie Scholl was a German woman executed by the Nazis for distributing anti-Nazi pamphlets. Her last words were: “How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to offer themselves up individually for a righteous cause? Such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go.”
gM4XX TIL Deaf / Blind UK residents cannot serve on jury duty because a translator counts as a "13th person in the room"