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TIL that treating a cut with hydrogen peroxide doesn’t have much antiseptic effect, probably increases healing time, and can cause inflammation of surrounding tissues.

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dDKkd TIL about Civil War Survivor Jacob Miller. In 1863 he was shot between the eyes and with a bullet lodged in his brain he was left for dead. Jacob regained consciousness and made it to a field hospital. Jacob lived for another 54 years, dying at the age of 88 in 1917.
LkM1r TIL of Project Thor which explored using large projectiles from 1,000+ miles above the Earth. The "rods from god" idea was a bundle of telephone-pole-size tungsten rods, dropped from orbit, reaching up to 10 times the speed of sound. The explosion would be on par with a nuke - but no fallout.
VM7aD TIL Geologists consider the Hudson River Valley to be a Fjord.
rNGV1 TIL that Waylon Jennings voluntarily gave up his seat to J. P. Richardson on the doomed flight that killed Buddy Holly
mvEY TIL that in a US military exercise named Millenium Challenge 2002 - the most expensive war games in history - the general commanding the anti-U.S. team used low-tech methods to ‘kill’ over 20,000 simulated U.S. troops. After this, the military made him stick to a script where the U.S. forces 'won’.