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TIL the EPA approves of some Ozone Generators to be used as deodorizers. Ozone is a toxic, dangerous gas.

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GLY5 TIL, a lieutenant in the Nazi army, Albert Battel, refused to round up Jews and haul them to the Belzec extermination camp. Instead he brought them to a local military barracks for protection. Battel was later discharged in 1944 and settled in West Germany.
KeO6 TIL That in 1776 a lead statue of King George III located in Boston was torn down by revolutionaries. The lead from the statue was then melted down and cast into musket balls to be used against the British.
BrXnb TIL Base metals like Lead can be transmuted into gold using particle accelerators. The process is so expensive that it is not economically viable. Gold can also be turned into base metals.
WXvN TIL “Towser,” a long-haired tortoiseshell female cat, is credited with killing an estimated 28,899 mice in 24 years of work as the resident pest control expert at Glenturret whiskey distillery in Scotland. Guinness Book of Records recognizes her tally as the world record.
Dr4P TIL the computer mouse, video conferencing, teleconferencing, hypertext, word processing, hypermedia, object addressing and dynamic file linking, bootstrapping, and a collaborative real-time editor were all demonstrated for the first time in what is the called the “mother of all demos” back in 1968