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Enad TIL that there is currently no anti-venom for coral snake bites because Pfizer didn’t find it profitable enough.
yVPNa TIL that the oldest surviving intact videotape and kinescope program is “The Edsel Show”, aired October 13, 1957
7rpj7 TIL A Certain Species of Tiger Moths Can "Jam" the Echolocation of Bats' by Producing Similar High Pitches Noises
LQk9m TIL that Hugo Ferdinand Boss, the original founder of Hugo Boss, manufactured NSDAP, SS & Wehrmacht clothing in the early 1930s until end of WW2
mEkR TIL The British military still practice bayonet charges, and in Iraq after being ambushed and running out of ammo, 20 men from the 16th Air Assault Brigade charged 600ft through open ground, overran enemy positions that outnumbered them 5 to 1, and left with no casualties.