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TIL Hair straightening chemicals associated with higher uterine cancer risk

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yQwxM TIL there is a Mummified head of a 17th Century Saint on display in a church in Ireland. Catholic relics are an interesting topic to delve into.
OGy41 TIL: Kimberly Vanvaeck, otherwise known as Gigabyte, wrote the first C# virus along with several other viruses after a long standing dispute with Graham Cluley who worked for an internet security firm. The dispute was due to Cluley making several comments about the gender of virus writers.
e0GAJ TIL that there were kamikaze torpedo/submarines called 'Kaiten' used by the Japanese at the end of WW2. They were fast, silent, made no bubbles, and contained 1.44 tons of TNT in the tip.
8eEpV TIL George Picquart, an anti-semitic French army officer, helped to convict fellow officer Alfred Dreyfus, a Jew, of treason. Subsequently promoted to lead the secret intelligence service, he then discovered and exposed the conspiracy that had framed Dreyfus, eventually toppling the government.
l7aLN TIL the character in the 1986 TV special Garfield in Paradise that could translate for everyone was named Pigeon.