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TIL The US military once accidentally killed over 6,000 sheep with nerve gas when a weapons test went wrong

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BaVW TIL that Guy Fawkes, the guy many celebrate and honour as a rebel to the state, was in fact aiming an assassination in the name of religion to restore Catholicism to Britain, not simply rebelling against government power.
BrRBd TIL that tabloid The Sun isn't sold in Liverpool - a boycott going back to 30 years after they published a heinous lie about a local tragedy. Even Tesco won't carry it.
kOl5B TIL the first inter-state quarantine ever undertaken in America happened in Cincinnati in 1878 thanks to Dr. Thomas C. Minor - and it even received some pushback from the local community
9YWJM TIL that in 1926 President Coolidge and his wife were gifted a raccoon as a Thanksgiving dinner gift. They did not want to eat her, so they named Rebecca and kept her as a pet. She had free range of The White House and would go on trips with the couple.
ANkro TIL There’s a chance you might get blown to smithereens if you donate your body to science… Jim Stauffer said the paperwork asked specifically if medical tests involving explosions were OK. “We checked the ‘no’ box on all that,”