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TIL Jason Everman played guitar in Nirvana and Soundgarden before quitting music and becoming a US Army Ranger and Green Beret

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7rpYr TIL One of America's first patent trolls was George Selden, who was granted a U.S. patent for an automobile in 1895, and proceeded to sue anyone else who attempted to produce one even while he never manufactured a car himself.
dVAE TIL Bhopal gas disaster was the worst industrial disaster ever killing close to 4000 people. The incident happened when poison gas escaped from a Union Carbide factory due to negligence. The American CEO of the company was arrested, let out on $2100 bail and never came back to India to face charges.
Z8XGG TIL that the Fahrenheit temperature scale was the only used temperature scale in the English Speaking world until the 1960s. Britain and Canada among others converted to Celsius, with the US being the exception.
nDGb TIL Irrational numbers are called irrational because they aren’t ratio-nal (they can’t be described as a ratio or fraction)
5Zdn TIL that Scotland was one of the few countries that was able to hold off being conquered by the Romans