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TIL a man robbed a bank by pretending to be a public health official and giving a fatal dose of cyanide to all 16 people in the bank under the pretense of a routine dysentery inoculation

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new1P TIL that the shift (maj) key's name originated from the typewriter, where one had to press and hold the button to shift up the case stamp to change to capital letters.
epRjb TIL The US Navy still has a ship, the USS Pueblo, from 1945 that is actively commissioned till today, however it has been taken hostage by North Korea since 1968. It is now used by North Korea as a museum ship in the capitol of Pyongyang.
wK0J TIL that in 2002, Dave Grohl became the first person to hold the number one spot on the modern rock charts as a member of three different groups
0m0j TIL: The Hawaiian alphabet only has twelve letters: a,e,i,o,u,h,k,l,m,n,p,w
oB5bE TIL Continuous ingestion of Colloidal Silver [an alternative medicine] can cause skin to turn an irreversible blue/grey color - a condition called Argyria