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699w7 TIL - The antibiotic "Bacitracin" was named after the Bacillus bacterium species that produced it, combined with the wound it was found growing on from a patient named Margaret Treacy (using the more common spelling of Tracy)
x91o TIL in WWII the Russians trained dogs to run under German tanks with bombs on their backs. However, the tanks the dogs were trained to run under were Russian so they ended up running under the Russian tanks and blowing them up instead.
a8v6M TIL that president Ronald Reagan had 720 bags of jelly beans delivered to the White House each month and used them as a way to quit smoking
J4YQ TIL that the pyramids in Egypt were originally white and smooth, as they were encased in marble.
d0oK TIL of the Jack Hills, a range of hills in Mid West Western Australia. They are best known as the source of the oldest material of terrestrial origin found to date: zircons that formed around 4.4 billion years ago