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TIL While US army officer Braxton Bragg held both the job as the company commander and the post quartermaster, he made a request as commander to the quartermaster and when he received the request as quartermaster, he denied it. He continued to argue back and forth with himself through letters.

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x7Kk TIL of “Feeders of Lice” a job in nazi occupied poland, where individuals were wrapped with lice cages to serve as blood farms and food for disease carrying lice. These cages were used to develop Typhus vaccines.
167Z8 TIL Reno, Nevada is named after the Father of the man who invented the first working escalator
XwNP TIL that a High School student served 5 years in jail and had to register as a sex offender after being falsely accused of rape by a classmate of his, because she didn’t want her mother to know she was sexually active.
jZKE TIL the shortest commercial flight is between two islands in Scotland and can take as little as 47 seconds.
kp64 TIL Darren Aronofsky’s debut feature, Pi, was financed entirely from $100 donations from friends and family. In return, he promised to pay each donor back $150 if the film made money, and receive on-screen credit if the film lost money. On a budget of $60,000, the film grossed a total of $3,221,152.