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TIL as a promise to a friend dying of bone cancer, a man ran across the U.S. at 16, becoming the fastest and youngest person to accomplish the feat.

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6eRY TIL, Sir Issac Newton hated his mother and step-father; he even threatened to kill them with fire.

l7YMB TIL During Prohibition in the United States, the U.S. government literally poisoned alcohol. When people continued to consume alcohol despite its banning, law officials got frustrated and decided to try a different kind of deterrent—death

BgYaW TIL Theodore John Kaczynski (UNABOMBER and Author of Industrial Society and Its Future) wrote and published three additional books, and a short story, while incarcerated at ADX Florence. Each of these books expanded on anti-technology sentiment of his manifesto and his new concerns for the future.

l7nnG TIL that horse hair was sometimes used as a suture in the American Civil War. Unbeknownst to the doctors at the time, boiling the hair to make it more pliable also sterilized it.

nOlr TIL Chadwick (the discoverer of the neutron) was a student of Rutherford (discoverer of the proton) who was the student of Thomson (the discoverer of the electron).