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TIL during WW1 soldiers used mid-evil weapons like the “trench club”. Specifically the Bosnians used them to finish off wounded opponents hit by poison gas

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kJ9be TIL : High Lithium levels in drinking water will lead to lower than expected suicide rates
e0NBJ TIL: that the oil company Shell was started by a man called Samuel Samuel
aLWL TIL a 19 year old developed a way to clean the plastic out of the oceans 2000x times faster than if they used boats and nets
vPE9j TIL The notion that lobster was such a low-quality food that prisoners in New England rioted if it was over-served and indentured servants had contracts stating they could only have lobster three times a week is actually a myth
10M4 TIL that in 1989 a scuba diver was sucked up by an intake pipe of a nuclear power plant, dragged over 1,600 feet, and deposited in one of the reactor cooling ponds. He lived.