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TIL Future US President Hoover Had to Spend 14 Days in Quarantine after arriving in Australia as a Young Mining Engineer in 1898

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yVbMv TIL Medicine caps have protective caps due to a person in Chicago lacing Tylenol containers with Cyanide. The killer was never found.
9wgb7 TIL there’s a term for why people act wild in groups—Deindividuation. It’s when you lose your sense of self in a crowd and follow group behavior, ranging from harmless hype to risky or harmful actions. Feeling unidentifiable in a group reduces personal accountability.
b9oop TIL that not all torpedoes are designed to pierce hulls then explode, some detonate below the target ship without making contact. This creates a gas bubble that causes the ship to be thrust out of the water then dropped back into the resulting void, often breaking the vessel in half and sinking it.
9wkNr TIL of New Sweden, a Swedish colony along the lower reaches of the Delaware River from 1638 to 1655. The colony was established during the Thirty Years' War when Sweden was a great military power.
e0DM5 TIL I learned giant herds of goats are used to eat brush in high risk areas around CA to help prevent wildfires.