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TIL multiple case reports exist of adolescents injecting themselves with elemental mercury after having seen X-Men Origins: Wolverine and incorrectly believing they can convert their bones to metal by injecting themselves with liquid metal.

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Z8lVR TIL French veterinarian and microbiologist Gaston Ramon was nominated for the Nobel prize 155 times between 1930 and 1953, but never won any, making him the most nominated individual to miss out on the award.
KKYJ TIL: The UK Royal Mail ran an underground railway network in London of driverless trains from 1927 until 2003 to move mail between sorting offices
MeNEa TIL: Franklin W. Dixon, who wrote the Hardy Boys books, wasn't a single individual. Instead, a publishing house used the pseudonym to have multiple people produce a lot books quickly. The Nancy Drew books worked the same way.
nWvXY TIL that in 1889 in the German city of Freiburg the most stinkiest compound ever produced called Thioacetone has been distilled in an experiment in the city causing fainting, vomiting and unconsciousness in a radius or around 1 km from the place of the experiment.
nWvWr TIL that after the collapse of the Tacoma bridge in 1940, it’s designer Clark Eldridge enlisted in the navy. He was captured and sent to a POW camp by the Japanese for three years. During his imprisonment, a Japanese officer recognized him, walked up to him and said “Tacoma bridge!”.