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TIL of Edward Katskee, a scientist who accidentally overdosed on Cocaine after he purposefully injected himself with a large dose of to test how it affected the human body. He attempted to write notes on the walls of his office as he died. They were deemed too illegible to be scientifically useful.

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P1nJg TIL about the Messian Salinity Crisis, where the closing of the straight of Gibraltar 5 million years ago led to the Mediterranean Sea drying up and global sea levels rising by up to 10 meters
Lmjr TIL On May 25th, 2015 a man discovered an orphaned baby moose in Yellowstone National Park in Montana. When he reported the calf to local authorities they shot the baby and blew up the carcasses of it, it’s dead mother and sibling to prevent grizzly bears from being drawn to the area.
kJw0E TIL that Milton Hershey was booked on the ill-fated maiden voyage of the Titanic, but had a change of plans for business reasons and, instead, traveled on the German liner Amerika, which had an earlier departure date.
YpeXG TIL In 1821, Thomas Jennings became the first African-American to hold a patent. He invented 'dry scouring', a method for removing dirt and grease from clothing that would lead to today's dry cleaning.
voa8 TIL those scaffolds that cover sidewalks all over NYC are called “Sidewalk Sheds,” long enough to wrap around Manhattan six times and were due to a law passed in 1980 after a 17 year old girl was hit in the head by a falling brick. It created a billion dollar industry with sheds often up for years.