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TIL we don’t know who invented the iconic post-type fire hydrant because the patent office records were destroyed in a fire in 1836.

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d8Rp9 TIL that American neurologist Walter Freeman drove around the US performing ice pick lobotomies in a van he coined the lobotomobile.
ADKog TIL that 150,000 people die everyday
4kD1b TIL - About EA-3167, Is a deliriant used that can be used in chemical warfare. Incapacitating effects can last anywhere from 5-10 days, sometimes manifesting as a full 3-day peak of vivid hallucinations, along with prolonged confusion, amnesia, and inhibition of speech and cognition.
JYPlV TIL that within 10 minutes of Allies landing on Omaha beach D-Day 1944,every Officer of the first wave Alpha Company had been killed. 30 minutes later the entire first wave Alpha company had a 96% casualty rate
aVe0 TIL: The Christian Children’s Fund once turned down a $17,398 donation because it was associated with Dungeons and Dragons.