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TIL Al Capone was one of the first civilians to receive penicillin for treatment. However, it was already too late to cure his syphilis by that time.

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OoJDL TIL that Japanese scientists had cultivated enough CowPox to infect all the people in the United States and were ready to deploy it via ocean crossing balloons which had already delivered bombs but Emperor Hirohito did not permit it.
WE0A TIL the US has fired a quarter of a million bullets for every 1 insurgent killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
LAN0 TIL (then VP) Calvin Coolidge learned of President Harding’s death while visiting his parent’s home in Vermont. His father, a notary public, used a family bible to administer the oath of office to his son, swearing him in as President of the United States.
ne74W TIL In 2005 a cardboard box was added to the US National Toy Hall of Fame : "Inside a big cardboard box, a child is transported to a world of his or her own, one where anything is possible."
l7lQr TIL shopping malls are intentionally designed to be confusing & difficult to navigate as it makes shoppers more susceptible to impulse purchases through a psychological phenomenon known as the Gruen Transfer.