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TIL Nick Ut, the photojournalist who took the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Napalm girl” photo during the Vietnam War, put down his camera after taking the shot, rushed the girl to a hospital and forced them to treat her. The girl survived and the two have remained in touch ever since

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D1REv TIL that in 1823 Martin Van Buren's vice president proposed in the US Senate that the government fund an expedition to the center of the Earth. His "pet project" was soundly defeated, garnering 25 votes total.
Oap6 TIL In WWII, partially due to America’s ship-building rate, advances in radar technology, as well as cracking the “Enigma code”, German U-boats had a 75% casualty rate by the end of the war,(the highest of all German forces).
Y7O8Z TIL President Nixon had this 'MOON DISASTER' speech ready in case Apollo 11 astronauts died
EgD4p TIL the US Capitol granite is so radioactive it would not pass a safety check if it were a nuclear power plant
epEm6 TIL that in 1567, surgeon Ambroise Pare decided to test whether bezoar stones, which were believed to cure poison, actually worked. He made a deal with a man condemned to death by poison: to give him a bezoar and let him go free if he lived. The man died in agony, proving that bezoars do not work.