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TIL Lee Harvey Oswald was court martialed while in the Marines for accidentally shooting himself in the elbow with an unauthorized handgun

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E9pp TIL Robbie Green was the first proffesional darts player that was positive in a drug test. He was banned for eight weeks by the Darts Regulation Authority.
oRAko TIL there is no official "national identity card" in the United States. Most Americans use their driver’s license as a national identification.
BADr TIL of retronyms, words created to differentiate between two words, where previously no clarification was required, like acoustic guitar.
D1rdp TIL Mao Zedong's English interpreter Ji Chaozhu moved to New York in 1939 at age 9, to avoid the war and spent a year at Harvard before returning to China in 1950. He worshipped Mao and remember the Chairman as “serene,” “regal,” and “mentally far away, at peace.”
R7Vo6 TIL that a few weeks before the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, US scientists performed a safety test on the EBR-II reactor by disabling cooling pumps and automatic protection systems at full thermal power. The core passively cooled itself as designed without human intervention or damage.