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TIL that George Washington conducted a mass inoculation of the Continental Army against smallpox.

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DQAbY TIL if AirPods was it’s own company, it would be the 32nd largest company in the US
9wkJQ TIL of Thomas Midgley, possible the unluckiest Genius ever. He developed FCKW (extremely ozone-depleting), developed leaded gasoline (very negative environmental impact) and invented a lift to help himself, weakened by polio, out of bed (he died being strangled by it).
wNdo TIL that there are roughly 5,000 words of Old Norse origin present in the lexis of the English language and that one in 33 men in Britain can claim Norse ancestry.
nemeB TIL former Ugandan president Idi Amin called himself: "His Excellency, President for Life... Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular", in addition to his claim of being uncrowned King of Scotland.
Wk97Y TIL during WWII, American POWs in Japan had a 40% chance of dying compared to American POWs in Germany who had a 1% chance of dying.