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TIL That ‘fragging’ is the deliberate killing of a senior ranking military officer, usually with a frag grenade…with over 900 cases near the end of the Vietnam war.

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E1Gyd TIL in 1952 a chemist was helping out a milk truck driver complaining about the smell of rotten milk in his truck by extracting oils from evergreen trees. 2 years later he patent his “odor-destroying, air-perfuming substances,” invention shaped like a little tree with a string attached to it.
KYWAG TIL a waitress was tipped a lottery ticket and won $10,000,000. She was then sued by her colleagues for their share. Then she was sued by the man who tipped her the ticket. Then she was kidnapped by her ex husband, and shot him in the chest. Then she went to court against the IRS.
oRw08 TIL that Eratosthenes paid a guy to walk 800 kilometers to a tower to measure the length of it’s shadow & that’s how we found out the earth was round.
xpjo TIL that the world’s most advanced visible-light astronomical observatory is named the VLT, for Very Large Telescope
0wOxR TIL that the higher a cat falls from, the more likely they are to survive.