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TIL of Jonny Kim. His accomplishments include being a former Navy Seal with 100 combat missions, a Doctorate of Medicine from Harvard, and will soon be an astronaut for NASA

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m9no TIL that during the Irish Potato Famine, the poor were given construction jobs, so they could earn food rather than receive it as a handout. However, to avoid taking jobs from other workers, these people built useless projects, like roads in the middle of nowhere, and piers in the middle of bogs.
Olga TIL When Britain began to impose prohibition of heroin, in 1968, there were fewer then 500 heroin addicts. By 2001, the Home Office says there were as many as 500,000.
noB9 TIL that the widow of the inventor of the Winchester rifle built a house with mazes and dead end staircases to confuse the ghosts of the people who were killed by her husbands rifles.
69RwQ TIL Liberace once sued the Daily Mirror for an article saying he was gay, and won the biggest libel settlement at that time.
0Kxj TIL of Beelzebufo, or “Devil Frog,” a prehistoric frog that weighed 10+ pounds and could have eaten baby dinosaurs.