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TIL as part of military training recruits are sprayed with pepper spray and then required to engage in combat. This is to familiarize them with the sensation and allow them to handle a real life situation

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b9p6a TIL Mathematician Leonard Euler was so prolific and original that some of his discoveries have been named after the first person to have proved it after Euler
Y7VRv TIL that the oral history of the Klamath indigenous people describes the eruption of a volcano and subsequent creation of Crater Lake in Oregon, events that geologists date to almost 8,000 years ago.
7rr4b It's the difference between a grainy black-and-white film and HD.
7rogX TIL about Major Digby Tatham-Warter who was known to walk into battle with an umbrella. It was said that he disabled an armored car by incapacitating the driver by shoving the umbrella through the car's observational slit and poking the driver in the eye
b0G0 TIL that on September 11th, 2001, Officer John Perry of the NYPD went to headquarters to file retirement paperwork. When he heard the explosion at the world trade center he immediately responded and was later killed when one of the towers collapsed. He was the only off-duty officer killed on 9/11.