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TIL about the “Rawalpindi Experiments” where British Soldiers tested the effects of mustard gas on 20,000 Indians in the early 1930s

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YVEP TIL pandemonium comes from John Milton’s poem Paradise Lost, and is a contraction of pan (all) and demonium (demons).
epp65 TIL that the mating season of the wood pigeon depends upon whether it's an odd year or an even year!
Zp054 TIL that On September 10, 2001, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in a press conference that $2.3 trillion from Pentagon had gone missing, but the 9/11 attacks took attention away from this news, so it was forgotten.
yx6M TIL Tupac Shakur was originally considered to play the part of Mace Windu in “Star Wars”, but was murdered before he could audition
BgdAK TIL about Prophyrios, a whale that wreaked havoc on ships over a 50 year period in Greece during the middle ages. The Greek king made it an important matter to capture it, though he could not come up with a way to do so.