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kgkg TIL of Tanya Savicheva, a young Russian girl who kept a diary through the siege of Leningrad. The last entry is “All Savichevs died. Now remains only Tanya.” Tanya later died as well.
691yl TIL John Von Neumann worked on the first atomic bomb and the first computer, came up with the formulas for quantum mechanics, described genetic self-replication before the discovery of DNA, and founded the field of game theory, among other things. He has often been called the smartest man ever.
WkYV9 TIL Naloxone (Narcon) has became a mainstay of hospital emergency rooms and medical wards. It can be injected or sprayed up the nose, and can stop/reverse a heroin overdose in under two minutes. It’s so vital the World Health Organization placed the drug on its list of essential medications in 1983.
9wdQ6 TIL in 2001, Mattel made a vibrating Harry Potter broomstick that led to many questionable Amazon user reviews. They discontinued the toy after adult stores in Times Square started selling them for twice their original retail price
0wBBj TIL: America's most iconic snack company - responsible for the Oreo, Vanilla Wafer, Fig Newton, and others - is the result of a merger in 1898 of the major biscuit producers of the time to form the "National Biscuit Company", or better known as "NaBisCo".