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TIL Dexter Holland, the lead singer of The Offspring, has a PhD in Molecular Biology, his own hot sauce brand, an Airline Transport Pilot license, and a Flight Inspector certification.

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5YjD8 TIL that gum disease can be associated with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, and that Alzheimer’s is associated with markers from oral bacterium P. gingivalis
XExYP TIL about Elizabeth Cochrane, who, under the pseudonym of Nellie Bly, got herself admitted into an insane asylum in Blackwell's Island by feigning insanity to uncover what really goes on there and how the patients are treated. Her exposé of the conditions of the patients were collected into a book
R5bR6 TIl Wozniak has credited watching Star Trek and attending Star Trek conventions while in his youth as a source of inspiration for his starting Apple Inc.
ma7y TIL in 1995 a plain clothes Boston Police officer was brutally beaten by his fellow officers after they mistook him for a fleeing suspect. BPD officers tried to intimidate and harass him into staying quiet afterwards.
a5M9 TIL that a school in Poland is named after an Indian Maharaja, in honour of him providing shelter and free education to hundreds of Polish women and children after they had to escape Poland due to the World War 2.