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TIL during a 2006-2007 tour of Afghanistan one Royal Marine sniper managed to kill over 90 Taliban fighters in just one day.

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wompW TIL Roh Moo-hyun left office as South Koreas most unpopular president in its history. He committed suicide a year later leaving a note saying “too many people are suffering because of me”. He has since been reevaluated and is now regarded as South Koreas best president.
XJnX TIL German scientist, Gerhard Domagk, developed the antibacterial agent Prontosil, a sulfonamide. He used this agent to treat his own daughter, preventing her from an arm amputation. He won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1939.
4XE55 TIL of Cocaethyline, a substance produced by the body when cocaine and alcohol are consumed together. Its euphoriant properties are so powerful it causes feelings of acute well-being almost universally among users, but it's also about 25 times more likely to kill you than cocaine alone.
eQjb TIL The US Navy declassified a BILLION dollar submarine secret after it accidentally appeared in the film “The Hunt for Red October”
WGW4 TIL in the 1980s, Dominos Pizza had a campaign centered around “The Noid”. It was discontinued in 1989 after a mentally ill man named Kenneth Noid took Dominos Pizza workers hostage after he thought the ads were a personal attack on him.