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TIL in 2015, the US Department of Defense accidentally mailed live anthrax to several locations in different states. This happened less than year after the CDC had done the same thing.

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kJkPE TIL Cornelius Vanderbilt had an estimated worth of $105 million ($2,885,531,250 in 2022 dollars) at the time of his death in 1877
R5x5w TIL that bees have five eyes and I just think that's neat 🐝
4XjrN TIL that the Olympics have only been postponed or cancelled six times since 1896. Most of these postpones or cancellations were due to war, specifically WWI and WWII.
1ap6V TIL doctors in Poland created a fake Typhus epidemic to ward off Nazis, and ended up saving approx 8,000 people from death or imprisonment in concentration camps.
yQ0Jl TIL after the Kent State shootings students often got a hostile reaction upon returning home. Some were told that more students should have been killed to teach student protesters a lesson; some students were disowned by their families.