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TIL Starship Troopers is the only science fiction novel recommended by three of the five branches of the US military.

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WkLdo TIL when John Connally died in 1993, there was a petition to recover the fragments of the bullet that hit him in Kennedy's assassination, hoping to disprove the single bullet theory. Department of justice replied that it would approve if Connally's family gave permission, which they refused to give.
BrVyx TIL the CEO of GM, Mary Barra, changed the workplace dress code from a complicated 10-page document to two words: "Dress appropriately."
v1GvR TIL about Catherine Marie Kerkow, a woman who has been on the run from the FBI and Interpol for the last 44 years. The longest tenured female fugitive ever who is believed to be alive and well.
8o78 TIL that thalidomide, the infamous morning sickness drug that caused severe birth defects, was never approved for use in the US because of a single reviewer at the FDA who didn’t think it had been tested enough, and resisted industry pressure to approve the drug anyway.
ADnZx TIL that the Soviet Union was the first and only country to explore the surface of Venus.