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TIL the first chemotherapy drug was derived from mustard gas

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AN7Od TIL about the Pentagon Pizza Meter, where any time any big geopolitical event is imminent (a war, invasion, assassination, etc.) pizza orders at pizza shops near the pentagon soar, as the Pentagon workers are loading up on food for a long night of analysis and observation.
G0V1 TIL of a man named James Howells who threw away a hard drive containing 7,500 bitcoin. The hard drive, currently under mountains of trash in a wales landfill is worth approximately $15 million.
0j0R TIL Missouri is the cruel Puppy Mill Factory capital of the U.S.
N7onP TIL that a Franciscan friar once argued that Paul the Apostle had only condemned sodomy in his epistles because Paul enjoyed sodomy and wanted to keep the practice to himself. The friar was executed for his views in 1550.
0wxAA TIL Hitler only ate "chocolate bars and biscuits" during the gala dinner he had May 4th, 1938 in Rome, when he was guest of the King of Italy.