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TIL that Smedley Butler is the last person to have been awarded the Medal of Honor twice

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GGwG TIL In 1976, a 23-year-old chemistry grad student synthesized a synthetic opiate which he used recreationally as a “legal high.” Unbeknownst to him, the drug contained a neurotoxic impurity that caused Parkinson’s disease symptoms.
Zpxkp TIL about Roy Sullivan, a man who had been struck by lightning 7 times and had kept a water bucket in his car due to his hair catching fire after being struck. He used the bucket on multiple occasions.
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