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TIL Vitamin D is used as rat poison in extremely high doses, in which it causes Calcium crystals to form in organs (Calcification), tearing them apart from the inside

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6Eodm TIL of Owen J. Baggett who was the only person ever to shoot down an aircraft using a pistol
w9P1 TIL Benjamin Franklin was an advocate of “air baths”, during which he would spend up to an hour reading or writing in his house completely nude.
mvMx TIL that key members of the Bush admin leaked the name of a covert CIA operative because her husband revealed that Bush manipulated evidence to justify the invasion of Iraq.
5jd8 TIL in 1980, former Vice President Spiro Agnew published a memoir in which he implied that Nixon and his Chief of Staff, Alexander Haig, had planned to assassinate him if he refused to resign the Vice Presidency, and that Haig told him to “go quietly…or else,” the memoir’s title.
N7aaJ TIL There have been eight wars with higher casualties than World War One. And all of them have involved China.