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TIL the federal chemical weapons ban was used against a woman who tried to poison her neighbor due to an affair and the case went to the US Supreme Court in "Bond v. United States"

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l97 TIL that in 1973 a scientist sent healthy volunteers to mental institutions, telling them to fake one innocuous symptom and then act normally. All were diagnosed with psychiatric disorders and held for an average of 19 days.
l7po7 TIL with a hypothetical "Constant Acceleration" spaceship traveling at 1G you could travel the diameter of the Milky Way (105,000 Light-years) in a short 12 year journey.
jWXR TIL that the gas cells of early zeppelins were made from cow intestines. It took two hundred and fifty thousand cows to make one airship. During WW1, Germany and its allies ceased production of sausages so that there would be enough cow guts to make zeppelins.
bbLQ TIL that during the battle of Wizna, 800 polish soldiers held off 42,000 nazi soldiers for 3 days. Once the poles ran out of bullets, their commander threw himself on a grenade instead of surrendering. The battle is referred to as the Polish Thermopylae.
ADYLa TIL, Mr Rogers explained what assassination meant on his show after MLK and RFK were killed.