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TIL that Japanese scientists had cultivated enough CowPox to infect all the people in the United States and were ready to deploy it via ocean crossing balloons which had already delivered bombs but Emperor Hirohito did not permit it.

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5NQD TIL that the terms “hooker” and “sideburns” were popularized and invented respectively during the Civil War. General Joseph Hooker’s army was known to party and hire prostitutes, while General Ambrose Burnside’s facial hair spoke for itself
bENZ TIL In May 1830, four men armed with scissors and razors attacked a man in an attempt to shave his beard. The man fended off and wounded his attackers using a jackknife but was charged with “unprovoked assault” and spent more than a year in jail for refusing to pay a $10 fine.
mbpE TIL that US President Grover Cleveland bought a baby carriage for a child who would later become his wife.
5Ydr8 TIL Stephen Hawking’s ashes are buried beneath a memorial stone inscribed with his equation for the Hawking temperature of black holes. To commemorate his death, Hawking’s own words were beamed towards the nearest known black hole to Earth, about 3,500 light years away, by the European Space Agency