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TIL about Attarsiya, a military leader from what would become Greece, who lead an army against the Hittites, in the first recorded instance of European vs. Near Eastern war

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16GJd TIL in 1967 three astronauts - Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger B. Chaffee - died in a cabin fire in the first test of the Apollo command and service module. Because there was no rocket fuel, the test was not considered hazardous, and emergency preparedness for it was poor.
loXrK TIL that Felix Salten, author of one of the most notorious and depraved works of erotic fiction in world literature ("Josefine Mutzenbacher") also wrote the book on which Disney's "Bambi" is based.
xV0wD TIL: The average person swallows plastic equivalent to a credit card every week, due to micro plastics in our everyday lives
lr8K TIL: Ray Kroc (The founder of McDonald’s) and Walt Disney (The founder of Disney) both served in the same ambulance unit during World War 1.
wrm6 TIL the pilot episode of LOST was so expensive (~$14 million) that the network president was fired for green-lighting it