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TIL A&E star Billy the Exterminator joined the Air Force at age 19 intent on a career in law enforcement; however, his military entrance examination indicated that he had an aptitude for biology, which lead to his extermination career at an Air Base.

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Y7PQA TIL about Low-background steel, any steel produced prior to the detonation of the first nuclear bombs in the 1940s and 1950s and now typically found in shipwrecks. It is often used for modern particle detectors because more modern steel is contaminated with traces of nuclear fallout.
4kJx6 TIL that the mother of columbine victim Anne Marie Hochhalter committed suicide 6 months after the Columbine shooting by walking into a pawn shop, asking to see a gun, loading it with ammo she brought and shooting herself in the head.
WoXd TIL At the Battle of Klushino in 1610, The Polish Winged Hussars were outnumbered ten to one, and still somehow came out on top, utterly annihilating an army of 40,000 Swedes and Russians with just 4,000 Winged Hussars.
9RZX TIL that the British exclusively swam breaststroke in competition until the 19th century. In 1844, a Native American came to London and won a competition swimming front crawl (freestyle), a stroke never seen by the Western world, who then regarded it as “un-European”.
l7ExB TIL there is a perfect condition German 88mm from WW2 abandoned on an Adriatic Island