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TIL That author Kurt Vonnegut threatened to sue Pall Mall cigarettes for not killing him.

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eMYb TIL John Cena replaced Fred Flintstone on 4 million Fruity Pebbles cereal boxes because Dwayne Johnson called him a “Fruity Pebbles” eater in the ring.
mxKRo TIL that the Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex was a military base that cost over $2 billion and was voted to be decommissioned less than 24 hours after reaching full operational capability.
060A TIL - After the end of WW II, the Allies sold captured Enigma machines, still widely considered secure, to developing countries. These countries did not know that the machine had been broken, their supposedly secure communications were being read regularly by the major Western intelligence agencies
wLJ1o TIL Joseph Lister, the father of antiseptic medicine, had the idea that surgeons could prevent infecting their patients by washing and disinfecting their hands with carbolic acid before surgery. This idea earned him ridicule—until people started noticing that it did indeed help.
lPer TIL that patients with traumatic injuries are less likely to die in hospital if they have alcohol in their blood, and the more alcohol, the more likely they are to survive. Burn injuries are the only exception.