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Today I learned OJ Simpson had $8k in cash, passport and fake disguise in the white Bronco chase.

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W88L TIL: Ant Scholar Ed Wilson created his own chemical to match the chemical given off when an ant dies. This led to live ants doused in the chemical being carried away into a giant ant grave.
Z4PQ TIL that just 5 years after its invention, the smallpox vaccine was sent throughout the world by the King of Spain, stored in 22 orphans. The developer himself, Edward Jenner wrote, “I don’t imagine the annals of history furnish an example of philanthropy so noble, so extensive as this.”
Y76PG TIL that in 1971, a man survived an accidental skydiving fall from 10,000 feet after his parachute failed to open, landing in snow and walking away with minor injuries.
yVKgJ TIL that there are quiet props for film and TV that replace typically noisy objects (i.e. paper bags)
4XAD5 TIL that after World War II, a group of Holocaust survivors called "Nakam" tried to kill six million Germans as revenge for the Holocaust. They only succeeded in poisoning 2,283 German prisoners of war.