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TIL Austin St. John, the original Red Power Ranger, went on to become a Paramedic.

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5mLR TIL that the term “goody two shoes” comes from a children’s story about an orphan girl who was so poor she could only afford one shoe
nWWjd TIL that in 1985, First Lady Elena Ceaușescu demanded the Piața Romană metro station be removed because she thought "the workers and students were getting fat and needed more exercise". However, the engineers realized the station would be necessary so they built it in secret anyway.
vVM8 TIL while in prison Al Capone cut in line, so a bank robber named James Lucas held scissors to his neck, responding to Al Capone’s threats of “do you know who I am” with “if you don’t get back to the end of that fucking line, I’m gonna know who you were”
PYpYJ TIL About Lise Meitner, a woman who described a groundbreaking phenomenon called nuclear fission in a letter to Nature Editor, she was ignored because she was Jewish and five years later Otto Hahn won a Nobel prize for the same discovery.
Z8Ovv TIL patients were deliberately infected with malaria to produce intense fevers to treat incurable late stage syphilis. The inventor of this method won a Nobel prize for this work in 1927