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TIL the FDA approved a pill with a sensor that digitally tracks if patients have ingested their medication

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kKK4 TIL that Charles Bronson’s family was so poor that at one time he had to wear his sister’s dress to school for lack of clothing.
rNKjx TIL Moses Fleetwood walker is historically credited with being the first Black man to play in major league baseball in the 1884 season.
awVNy TIL that in the original story Pinocchio squished the cricket to shut it up. It continued nagging him as a ghost.
KXO9 TIL that Capitan, the German shepherd, has slept on his owner’s grave for six years. Strangest part: He was never showed the gravesite, he found it himself.
A7ad TIL in 1973, a Libyan passenger jet having navigational problems wandered into Israeli airspace. When 2 Israeli F-4s intercepted the jet and instructed the crew to land, they refused because of bad Libyan-Israeli relations at the time. The jet was then shot down, killing 108 people.