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TIL Fritz Haber invented Haber-process to produce ammonia by using nitrogen from the air, but also invented poison gas in World War I that led his wife to suicide...

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rvde TIL of the Byford Dolphin diving bell accident, where a human error caused a decompression chamber to go from 9 atmospheres of pressure to 1 in less than a second. Out of the 5 dead, one was ripped apart so violently pieces of him were found over 30 feet away.
NX0w8 TIL of Paul Frampton, a Physicist at UNC Chapel Hill who was arrested for transporting cocaine after being catfished by a drug cartel pretending to be a young Czech bikini model.
VQ7Q TIL the game “Assassin’s Creed” was purposely created to teach kids history under the guise of a bloody assassin video game.
VBLB4 TIL about the atlantropa, a gigantic engineering and colonisation idea that was devised by the German architect Herman Sörgel in the 1920s, and promoted by him until his death in 1952. The project was devised to contain several hydroelectric dams in key points of the Mediterranean Sea.
VE0G TIL Honda Tadakatsu, one of the most feared and legendary Samurai ever, once departed from a secure castle fortress to challenge an entire approaching enemy army in battle. The army promptly marched around him.