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TIL the Tulip Mania led to the laws that enabled futures contracts to be convertible into option contracts, a common investment vehicle today

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dDDVQ TIL John Tunstall who was portrayed as a older gentleman in the movie Young Guns was only 24 when he died in the Lincoln County War.
OodBL TIL that the youngest French resistance hero was a little boy who acted as a courier for resistance fighters, slipping past enemy patrols and carrying messages. In 1950, he was posthumously awarded the rank of sergeant of the resistance. He was Marcel Pinte, and he died for France at the age of 6.
BrGxb TIL that the dangerous strains of E-Coli Bacteria only came into existence in the early 70s, when, by a freak event of DNA sharing, a E-Coli Bacterium gained the gene to produce kidney and intestine destroying Shiga Toxins from a Shigella Bacterium, the bacteria that causes Dysentery.
8a9wZ TIL that an Indian woman defended her father from three gunmen that had broken into their home, and fought them off. She disarmed one, attacked him with an axe, then killed him with his own gun, before shooting and wounding another as he made his escape.
GYbE5 TIL of Ken Alibek, last USSR 1st Deputy Director of Biopreparat. Before defecting to the US in 1992 he destroyed vast bioweapon (BW) stockpiles and production facilities but could not stop all future BW work in Russia. His 1999 book Biohazard details the USSR’s secret, treaty-violating BW program.