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TIL of Texas Representative J.J. Pickle, whose campaign trademark was “a ‘squeaky pickle’ rubber toy he handed out to those he met in area parades”. He was re-elected 15 times.

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XE9jr TIL Jamie Foxx saved a man from a burning truck. Brett Kyle was speeding and hit a drainage pipe, rolling his vehicle multiple times in front of Foxx’s home. The car started on fire, Foxx cut the seatbelt and pulled Kyle out of the truck seconds before the truck went completely up in flames.
Vwx0 TIL a 15 year old high school student discovered a new method of diagnosing cancer through Open Access resources. This method is 168 times faster, 26000 times cheaper, and 400 times more sensitive, with a success rate of 90%
xVp40 TIL: Ernest Hemingway ended up being quarantined for most of the Summer with his wife and his mistress in 1926
BryLK TIL the Haya People of Tanzania have been forging steel for over 2000 years. Investigation of their land led to the discovery of ancient furnaces that were then carbon dated and found to be around 2000 years old.
pYrR4 TIL A 30-ton shipment of explosive chemicals traveling from Wyoming to California by rail just up and disappeared. Kinda freaked me out.