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TIL that British colonists borrowed the word "shampoo" from Hindi

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l75PV TIL: The Manhattan Project considered poisoning Germany's food supply with radioactive strontium-90
VLd4 TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger once went to military prison because he went AWOL in order to compete in Junior Mr. Europe.
4Xmrb TIL bananas used to have seeds. Kind of obvious in retrospect, but that is TIL in a nut shell.
wyjo TIL until late 1942, it was common for German U-boats to provide torpedoed survivors with food, water, and the direction of the nearest landmass. This ended when a U-boat towing lifeboats and flying the Red Cross flag was attacked by a US bomber.
vPX14 TIL that during the Vietnam war there were 7 discharges, 17 AWOL cases, 2 disciplinary charges, 12 complains to congress and 18 non-judicial punishments in every 100 groups of soldiers, whilst one third report some form of consistent drug abuse