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TIL Doc Martens is named after Klaus Martens, a doctor in the German Army during WWII.

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epdeL TIL that until recently, circus elephants were brought into Manhattan on foot through the Midtown Tunnel.
dDxb8 TIL A 2007 independent panel found that alcohol is "freely used in crew quarters," where astronauts are quarantined at the Kennedy Space Center in the three days before launch. NASA policy prohibits any drinking in the 12 hours before an astronaut flies a training jet
Br6yr TIL a race condition bug in the Therac-25 (a radiation therapy machine) caused some patients to receive radiation doses "that were hundreds of times greater than normal". The bug arose after technicians became 'to efficient' at entering commands causing code to execute in an unintended order.
5YbE8 TIL that Richard Donner received hate mail and death threats for making Superman (1978), which draws parallels between Superman and Jesus, with one letter telling him his "blood would run in the streets".
6x1X TIL there’s a condition called “Hero Syndrome,” where people will search for heroism/recognition by deliberately creating a situation for themselves to resolve. This is known to affect civil servants such as firefighters, nurses, and police.