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TIL that Joseph Petrosino an NYPD officer, warned President McKinley that there was an assassination plot due to take place against him, in Buffalo New York. McKinley brushed off the warning, and was duly assassinated.

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R0ra TIL that Chief Justice John Roberts is also chief justice of the NSA’s surveillance state. He has unlimited power to appoint FISA judges.
LQxGd TIL that the Nemi ships, built in the 1st century AD during the reign of Roman emperor Caligula, were destroyed by fire during WW2.
d8yej TIL Syphilis used to be treated by infecting people with malaria to induce a fever. While about 15% of patients died from malaria, this was preferable to the almost-certain death from syphilis
9wxL6 TIL Alysson Muotri wants Sentiomics: Sentiomics is the development and ‘education’ of human brain organoids to become sentient.
M7XDV TIL that the length of a second is defined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 cycles of microwave light absorbed or emitted by the hyperfine transition of cesium-133 atoms in their ground state undisturbed by external fields.