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TIL Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys picked up the tab for the Manson Family’s gonorrhea treatment.

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d90j TIL some mustard gas effects, once declassified, allowed the chemicals to be utilized to treat cancer. Mustard gas science is the precursor to chemotherapy.
oROb8 TIL that during the Cold War, the U.S. Army trained elite soldiers to deploy nuclear weapons by hand. They developed special rigs for Special Forces paratroopers to jump with bombs strapped to their chests.
yV9J TIL there is a highly venomous spider in Australia whose fangs are able to penetrate a shoe.
0lYA TIL that the ingredient’s list on food items is actually ordered by weight
6E0eY TIL the domain name ".tv" is actually the country code domain for Tuvalu, a country in Polynesia. Due to its popularity from its similarity to 'television', the Tuvalu government sought to capitalize on it and nearly 10% of its revenue comes from royalties from .tv addresses.