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WkVjo TIL of Percy Julian, a doctor living under Jim Crow, who was a pioneer in the drug industry and laid the groundwork for the development of the modern steroid. He was also the first African-American chemist ever inducted into the National Academy of Sciences.
5VoMQ TIL ex-British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, helped invent soft scoop ice cream.
rpQ0 TIL that the Battle of the Persian Gate was an almost exact role reversal of the Battle of Thermopylae. A small group of perhaps 300 Persians held Alexander’s army at a checkpoint. After killing legions of Alexander’s men, they were ultimately surrounded and slaughtered.
nblW TIL That Lennart Green, world champion close-up card magician was disqualified from the 1988 competition when the magician judges thought he must have been using stooges to shuffle the cards. He performed the same trick 3 years later, asking the judges to do the shuffling and won.
61x7 TIL Former NFL star Jason Brown walked away from $37 million to feed the hungry with his farm. He has now given away over 50,000 pounds of food.