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Today I learned chicken pox doesn’t come from chickens.

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ADavn TIL there are two Denis the Menaces - US & UK. Both were created independently of each other and launched on the same day. Both creators agree they didn't plagiarize from each other, and both are still published today.
mxvxp TIL Fritz Haber invented the process for modern agricultural fertilizer thus saving millions of lives from starvation. He also pioneered chemical weapons processes which killed and horribly injured hundreds of thousands during WWI. His wife, son, and grand daughter all committed suicide.
DQaPY TIL - English physician William Harvey was a prominent skeptic regarding allegations of witchcraft. He was one of the examiners of four women from Lancashire accused of witchcraft in 1634, and as a consequence of his report, all of them were acquitted.
awRON TIL that when the chimpanzee Sami escaped from the Belgrade Zoo for the second time in less than a week, thousands of people cheered him on.
16vJW Today I learned there is a city in Romania named ‘23 August’ after the 1944 royal coup