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TIL that there was a real-life soldier named Timothy Upham (a la Saving Private Ryan) who served during the War of 1812 and led his regiment to rescue a General Miller

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16kJd TIL Bruce Timm, creator and producer of Batman: The Animated series and many other DC comic animation projects, released two artbooks full of erotic drawings titled "Naughty and Nice: The Good Girl Art of Bruce Timm" and "The Big Tease: A Naughty and Nice Collection"
0dmKR TIL in 2005 graffiti artist David Choe was offered $60,000 to paint murals at Facebook headquarters. He chose to take the compensation in stock. Eventually being worth more than $200,000,000.
ANkMn TIL that in 2005 Paul Janssen the developer of fentanyl was voted the second greatest Belgian of all time. (Father Damien the leper priest was first)
ADZ0B TIL that April 19 is “Bicycle Day”, named after when Albert Hoffman, the man who first synthesized LSD, made the first intentional ingestion of LSD and then went home on a bicycle.
p8J5G TIL according to a new 3D model of the Milky Way, our galaxy is warped and shaped like the popular brand of potato chip. “I’d say that it is shaped like a Pringle” said Radek Poleski, an astronomer at Ohio State University who helped to create the new map.