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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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l7jBA TIL that despite being ubiquitous throughout the Roman world for centuries and appearing in sculptures and friezes across the empire, we don't know what the Romans called the armor they wore in battle. 16th century scholars gave it the name lorica segmentata.
awagy TIL The Liberty Bell was made by a company that was started in 1570, and only closed in 2017
PYDJg TIL that each US banknote weighs 1 gram, no matter the denomination, so because there are 454 grams in a pound, there are always 454 bills in every pound of currency.
PYG5L TIL American chemist Alexander Shulgin personally tested hundreds of drugs, meticulously recording their effects in his lab notebooks. He is also credited with introducing MDMA to psychologists in the late 1970s.
Y7VpB TIL about the Mars to Stay initiative, which proposes that the first astronauts sent to Mars go with the intent to stay. Unused emergency return vehicles would be turned into settlements as soon as habitability becomes evident. This would both reduce cost and ensure permanent settlement.