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TIL that a chemist in France unboiled an egg.
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TIL the Department of Defense sprayed several U.S. warships with various biological and chemical warfare agents, without notifying the personnel nor giving any protective clothing
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TIL in 1968, two boys playing in a deserted and rat-infested tenement found the body of a 31yo drug addict, surrounded by religious pamphlets and empty beer bottles. Not until 19 months later was the body identified as that of child actor Bobby Driscoll, Academy Award winner and voice of Peter Pan
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TIL that the nerves that control our voicebox take a detour all the way down to the heart due to the fact that our ancestors being ancient fish.
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TIL Poet Stanislaw Jerzy Lec survived a German concentration camp by killing his guard with a shovel that was given to him to dig his own grave - and then escaping in the guards uniform.
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TIL that Christopher Mccandless from "Into The Wild" didn't poison himself as the novel/film says. He merely starved to death.