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TIL A man was shot. He died 33 years later. His death was ruled a murder as a result of the shooting.

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6JQJ TIL Pythagoras invented a practical joke cup that would spill wine all over a person if they filled their cup too much.
RaB9 TIL there is a medicine being developed that will not only cure the common cold, but pretty much any viral infection you could get, including possibly HIV. (Why can’t we fast-track this research?)
e0XRk TIL about A-230, a new Russian chemical considered to be the most potent nerve agent ever discovered. It’s estimated that less than 0.1 mg is lethal for humans. It was added to Schedule 1 of the Annex of Chemicals of the Chemical Weapons Convention as of June 2020.
Lk15P TIL that in the late 1700s and 1800s, there was widespread panic about the evils of book-reading, which was described as “an outrage on decency and common sense”. People were concerned that avid novel-readers were ‘addicted’ and were becoming anti-social.
R7J84 TIL why we use QWERTY keyboards. Mechanical typewriters would jam if people hit the keys too quickly, so they had to put the common letters far apart from each other and QWERTY was created to slow typists down.