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TIL: Templars were rounded up and killed on Friday the 13th.

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R5n4Q TIL: Require 4 healthy adult guinea-pigs, 8 sheep, 8 goats for Safety, Safety & Potency Tests related to Anthrax (Pages 338, 339)
E1dGx TIL - Cookie Monster's first "aired" video appearance was used internally for IBM to describe a coffee machine. During the video, he eats the entire coffee machine, after which he explodes.
nerdG TIL that the pressurized bodies of early airships were called “envelopes,” a term that persisted in aviation to later describe the ideal flight performance of an airplane. When early NASA test pilots reached higher altitude, they called it “pushing the envelope” which is where we get the phrase.
e0Qlg TIL The 911 jumpers' death certificates state the cause of death as "blunt trauma" due to homicide and not Suicide. They didn't wanna kill themselves but were forced to.
R5n9j TIL that +/- 42k years ago, the “Adam’s Event”, a reversal of Earth’s magnetic poles, may have led to the extinction of mega fauna, Neanderthals, and forced humans into caves as the earth experienced intense periods of cosmic radiation, solar winds, electrical storms, and drastic climate change.