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TIL of Jack Parson, a rocket scientist who was involved in the religion of Thelema and whose wife ran off with L Ron Hubbard after they conned him of his savings to buy three boats

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j0lX TIL of the 3400 years of recorded history, only 268 are considered peaceful.
woEwJ TIL Not to use hand air dryers in public restrooms 🦠
jpGv TIL Colchicine, a Drug that’s been used safely since 550 AD to treat Gout, has gone from 10 cents a pill to $5 a pill. The FDA decided to offer a monopoly to anyone that would do safety testing. URL Pharma was granted a monopoly after a 1 week trial involving 185 patients and a $45 million fee.
ejmD TIL the Prime Minister of Hungary during WW2 killed himself rather than be complicit when his country was forced into the Axis
6EjgQ TIL that when trains were first introduced in the U.S, many people believed that, "women's bodies were not meant to go at 50 miles an hour" and that their "uteruses would fly out of [their] bodies if they were accelerated to that speed"