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TIL that the US bombing in the Vietnam War was roughly 100 times the combined impact of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs

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AD4Yx TIL That the victims of Pompeii had near-perfect dental health due to a low-sugar diet and a local water source rich in fluorine.
rRD6e TIL that the discovery of radium ignited a health fad in the early 1900s that saw it being used as a medical cure-all, in lipsticks, chocolates, toothpaste, water, health spas, treatment of impotence and chicken-feed!
epEm6 TIL that in 1567, surgeon Ambroise Pare decided to test whether bezoar stones, which were believed to cure poison, actually worked. He made a deal with a man condemned to death by poison: to give him a bezoar and let him go free if he lived. The man died in agony, proving that bezoars do not work.
wo5K1 TIL Out of 138,000 American Soldiers buried overseas, 60,000 are buried in France, 25,000 are buried in the Philippines, 14,000 in Belgium, 12,000 in Italy, 8,000 in a Netherlands, 5,000 in Luxembourg, 5,000 in Panama. 1000’s more in England, Tunisia, Mexico.
nWyKG TIL Daniel D. Tompkins was the only Vice President in the 19th century to serve two full terms