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wP1M TIL 25 scientists who worked on the Star Wars defense program died in a short span of time under mysterious circumstances.
Wkjr9 TIL of John Nixon, an 88-year-old former commando who attacked five robbers who were mugging a woman. He was stabbed in the hands and head after trying to disarm one of them. They fled afterwards, leaving empty handed. Nixon survived the encounter and recovered in hospital.
Wk4wo TIL President Eisenhower would watch almost any movie that featured cowboys except for ones with Robert Mitchum because of his arrest for marijuana possession. As soon as Ike saw Mitchum in a movie he would walk out.
DL5P TIL Pavlov’s dogs were eaten during the Siege of Leningrad by famished researchers
7XLx TIL that trees in the red forest, a forest in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, are not decaying because organisms that recycle organic matter suffer from radiation as well.