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TIL that chemotherapy can be traced back to the sinking of an Allied ship secretly carrying chemical weapons in WW2

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MeGbA TIL Humans are deuterostomes, which means the butthole forms before any other openings, and organs during development.
ADL8l TIL that dumb people believe themselves to be above average in terms of intelligence due to the Dunning Krueger Effect, which explains that the less someone knows of a topic, the more confident they will feel in the subject due to them not knowing the true size or complexity of the topic.
8anKV TIL Jim Henson would yell out "blue sky" when a child came to sets. All the muppeteers knew this code and would chill out with bad language and the such.
9wLgM TIL that the winner-take-all method that states use in the electoral college wasn't always the default method. In fact, James Madison and Alexander Hamilton both disapproved of this system when it was implemented.
4kdQo TIL a naturally-occurring nuclear fission reactor once formed in an African uranium ore deposit and ran for thousands of centuries.