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TIL Hattie McDaniel's Oscar for "Gone with the Wind," the first ever won by an African-American, has been missing for decades. Rumored locations of the award range from a misplaced storage box at Howard University to the bottom of the Potomac River

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78M7X Til that by 1910, 10% of tuberculosis cases were caused by raw milk consumption, and by 1938 25% of all food/waterborne disease was linked to unpasteurized milk, regardless of farm hygiene or symptomatic status of the animal. This predates factory farming.
OGMdY TIL that in 1958 an atomic bomb that fell on a farm in South Carolina and didn't detonate, leaving a massive crater sized at 24 feet deep and 50 feet wide.
4Xp1N TIL that Nasa is working on a 'clockwork rover' without electronics to explore the surface of Venus
wAoY TIL that a DNA test where you poop in a bucket has been shown to accurately find colorectal cancer 92% of the time. This was developed as a potential alternative to screening colonoscopies.
D1xnr 22 veterans commit suicide every day