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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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YpOW7 TIL 84 percent of vegetarians go back to eating meat
mx5YR TIL Rosalind Franklin is the unsung hero of DNA research. Her X-ray Crystallography allowed her colleagues Watson and Crick to accurately characterize the double helix. Many believe she should’ve shared in their Nobel prize.
eaj6 TIL the typical tax evader in the United States is a male under the age of 50 in the highest tax bracket and with a complicated return, and the most common means of tax evasion is overstatement of charitable contributions, particularly church donations.
nmL7 TIL that the youngest person to be executed in the USA was a 14 year old black boy who didn’t get a fair trial and had to sit on a Bible in order to fit into the electric chair.
KYBj9 TIL that despite appearing in 7 Bond films Roger Moore is the only Bond actor not to drive an Aston Martin on screen