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TIL There were Allied POWs in Nagasaki & Hiroshima during the bombings

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X4EE TIL that the phrase “when in Rome, do as the Romans do” comes from St. Ambrose who would switch his Milanese patterns of fasting to those of the Romans whenever he stayed in Rome.
v1V0L Today I learned Adolf Hitler was a 'super junkie' whose veins collapsed after thousands of injections according to Award-winning German writer Norman Ohler
8Qlb TIL that Benjamin Franklin wrote an essay in which he encouraged scientists to find ways of “improving the odor of human flatulence.”
ZpGVv TIL that SR71A "start carts" exhausted USA's junkyards of 400 cubic inch Buick V8 engines
jNVdX TIL the title of the movie 'October Sky' is an anagram of 'Rocket Boys', the title of the 1998 book upon which the movie is based. Universal Studios marketing people had to change the title because, according to their research, women over thirty would never see a movie titled Rocket Boys.