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TIL Gulf War Syndrome is not related to PTSD, but most likely due to sarin gas exposure

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ElyW TIL when George R.R. Martin was young, he wrote stories about a mythical kingdom populated by his pet turtles. The turtles died frequently in their toy castle, so he finally decided they were killing each other off in “sinister plots”.
Bgmve TIL about the NAWPA, an old plan to divert water from Alaska to the Contiguous US using up to 800 km long reservoirs in Canada that would have flooded large towns and vast salmon habitat
Yp7px TIL That Hitler's Armaments Minister Told Him on Nov. 29, 1941 That The War Could Not Be Won
E18rd TIL that although Dr. Dre is credited as writing "Still D.R.E.", it was actually ghostwritten entirely by Jay-Z
rRxvW TIL about Sarah Forbes Bonetta. An admitted genius and royal of the Yoruba tribe's Oyo empire that was given to Queen Victoria in 1850 as a present after her parents were decapitated and her siblings sold in the Atlantic slave trade. She would be raised as the Queens Goddaughter.