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TIL of US Navy Admiral Boorda the first person to rise from the enlisted ranks to become Chief of Naval Operations who killed himself after being accused of wearing 2 unauthorized service ribbons

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dDmd9 TIL that in 1986 a fan in the upper deck at Yankee Stadium threw a knife that grazed Angels first-basemen Wally Joyner.
YWQW TIL that Tycho Brahe, a Danish astronomer, refused to leave the dinner table to pee during a banquet, as this was considered impolite. This caused him to rupture his bladder and die as a result.
nWJGW TIL Michelle Kunimoto discovered dozens of planets while an undergraduate and Ph.D. student at age 26. She uses publicly available data collected by NASA’s Kepler Mission and studied them in a new, more sensitive way to find signals of planets that Kepler had missed
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oBEvL TIL marijuana laws are so strict in the UAE that a Briton was jailed for 4 years cannabis weighing less than a grain of sugar under his shoe; any trace of weed in your blood or urine is possession with a 4 year sentence.