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Today I Learned there is actually a Christmas disease, it’s a rare form of Haemophilia named after the first known patient

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b600 TIL there was a pre-WWII movement called Technocracy, which held that scientists and engineers should take over the government and economy from politicians and economists. The leader of the movement was known as the Great Engineer.
JYllj TIL the famous Leroy Jenkins video from WOW was re-staged since no one recorded the real event. The video posted to YouTube was acted.
J1l74 TIL that during the Vietnam War, the Battle of Hamburger Hill was named by American soldiers who felt the intense, grinding combat was like being “chewed up like hamburger meat.” Fought over Hill 937 in the A Shau Valley, the battle resulted in high casualties after ten days of fierce fighting.
p80KQ Today I learned the blisters from Poison Oak/Ivy are our immune systems response to the chemical Urushiol and our immune systems cause the cells to blister.
BL6d TIL a mysterious young woman known only as “Bionerd23” has spent the last couple of years wandering around the destroyed nuclear plant at Chernobyl, ignoring the radiation danger and occasionally eating radioactive apples. Despite her dozens of YouTube videos, no one seems to know who she is.