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TIL Bill Murray voiced the Human Torch in the 1970’s Fantastic Four radio show

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DK6V TIL that citizens sent Ulysses S. Grant more than 10,000 boxes of cigars as gratitude after a victory at the Battle of Shiloh. He died of throat cancer in 1885.
rQ8o TIL a failed experiment of an 18 year old English chemist in search of a treatment for malaria in 1856 produced one of the world’s first synthetic dyes for the color purple, which severely impacted economic trade as some natural dyes were major commodities more valuable than silver or gold
9kaD TIL Scientists have been developing a way to teach humans skills via functional magnetic resonance imaging, much in kind of the same way that Neo downloads skills in the movie “The Matrix”
1a9p7 TIL : In Victorian UK drunks would literally hang over a rope to sleep for 2-cents/pence
b9vep TIL the first recorded battle in history was the Battle of Megiddo in 1457 BC. It left such an impression on the Levantine people there that they believed the final battle of humanity would take place there as well. That's where the word Armageddon comes from.