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TIL Fritz Haber invented a process of ammonia synthesis both to save the world from starvation and to serve the German war machine. He never saw the creation of Zyklon B from his process and its use by the Nazis to kill his relatives in the gas chambers.

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QN90k TIL In 1974 there were so many tornado warnings in Indiana that forecasters couldn't keep up. In frustration, they ended up putting the entire state under a tornado warning. This was the first and only time this has ever happened.
4Ok5 TIL None of the Beach Boys actually surfed except for Dennis who died drowning.
99lD TIL on Christmas in 1914 German and Allied Troops had a truce and sang songs together, gave presents to each other, and played soccer.
BLaD TIL that a chemical called capsiacin (found in chillies and peppers) unblocks stuffy noses by irritating the nerve fibres in the nostril, blocking nerve impulses.
6EarX TIL about Aimo Leikas, a Finnish magician who killed himself in front of a crowd while performing his Russian Roulette act. He had been perfoming the act for a year, selecting six bullets from a box of assorted live and dummy ammunition.