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TIL the tops of many buildings were still visible after the burial of Pompeii, and archaeology has revealed extensive evidence of post-eruption looting, including graffiti that says "house dug"

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grjW4 TIL Robert Kehoe discovered reports that the chemical benzidine caused bladder cancer. His client, DuPont, made benzidine. Instead of alerting the American public, Kehoe stuffed the report in a box. The moldy records were unearthed decades later when DuPont’s employees, stricken with cancer, sued.
xovo TIL that in 2010 an unlucky airline passenger was arrested in Ireland after Slovak security officials placed explosives in his luggage for training, then forgot to remove them before the plane took off.
xVKr1 TIL about Clive Wearing, a former conductor and musician who suffers from chronic anterograde and retrograde due to a virus fever in 1985. He lacks the ability to form new memories and cannot recall past memories. He lives life believing that he has only recently awoken from a comatose state.
P1aZe TIL about “Umuganda,” a national holiday in Rwanda taking place on the last Saturday of every month for mandatory nationwide community work.
NM61 Til that Catch 22 refers to the US army clause 22 which states that all persons with mental issues should be removed from active combat upon request. However requesting removal from active combat is a sign of mental stability as it is the self preservation function of the brain working