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TIL Caractacus's uniform was just a loincloth, which makes the modern major-general's memorization of it unimpressive

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xVb7o TIL about Oh Gum Soon, a badass Korean defense force nurse who shot down 6 North korean soldiers who raided her hospital, scaring away another 5. She was awarded the national hero for her service.
4XWRN TIL there was a mission to launch an ISRO astronaut, in one of the NASA Space shuttles in 1986, which got cancelled following the challenges disaster.
8rkb TIL the targeted phishing of corporate executives is known as “Whaling”
p81yO TIL the story "the vibrator was invented by doctors for giving female patients orgasms to treat hysteria" was a myth.
O8y1 TIL Marijuana doesn’t kill brain cells; a new study says it may help regrow them.