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TIL A derivative of Mustard Gas was the first drug used as chemotherapy to treat cancer

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BgNDk TIL Rockefellers wealth in todays US Dollars (inflation adjusted) would amount to around 25 Billion, not 400. The higher estimate is derived calculating his wealth as a percentage of the US GDP.
6EGKm TIL due to lash back from a Far Side cartoon where a female chimp finds a human hair on the male she is grooming and says, “Conducting a little ‘research’ with that Jane Goodall tramp?”, Gary Larson now donates all profits from sales of a shirt featuring this cartoon to The Jane Goodall Institute.
Br1Pd TIL of Derinkuyu, the world’s deepest underground city, capable of holding 20,000 inhabitants.
ANJ5a Today I learned that the USS Samuel B Roberts is the deepest shipwreck in the world.
x7K7 TIL middle school students across the US are being given upwards of 5 hours of homework per night while countries with better educational rankings like Finland only assign 30 min.