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TIL that being exposed to even 0.01 mg/m3 of Tellurium will make you smell heavily of garlic for months, slowing research on it considerably

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w4dW TIL mad scientists attached a rat’s brain to an F-22 simulator and taught it how to fly in 2004
6mGw TIL The voice of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial was actually a ‘2 pack a day’ smoking woman, who was paid $380 for the her services
gro19 TIL: Caligula, the third emperor of Rome, once declared war on the sea itself, commanding his men to collect seashells as proof of victory
8V4b TIL A man named Dan Goodwin climbed the north World Trade Center tower in 1983 to call attention to the inability to rescue trapped occupants from the upper levels of skyscrapers.
e0Wgg TIL about "The Great Leveler," a book that argues that the greatest redistributions of wealth in history are during times of war, plague, and catastrophe, citing the Black Death and WWI as "actually suppressing inequality, by raising the price of labour."