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TIL Dr. Robert Lopez, a vet, suspected a connection between cat ear mites and a child's rash, experimenting by transferring them into his left ear. "I heard scratching sounds... as the mites began to explore my ear canal." He repeated the experiment twice, and won the Ig Nobel Prize in entomology.

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gr8KA TIL Fritz Haber invented a process of ammonia synthesis both to save the world from starvation and to serve the German war machine. He never saw the creation of Zyklon B from his process and its use by the Nazis to kill his relatives in the gas chambers. His wife committed committed suicide.
ANbWa TIL in 2019 the Italian fashion brand Max Mara was accused of plagiarizing traditional designs from the Oma ethnic minority in Laos, using their distinctive embroidery and appliqué patterns on clothing without acknowledgment or compensation, essentially exploiting their cultural heritage for profit.
WWdL TIL that in 1946 Kodak customers complained about film developing cloudy. Kodak investigated & found the corn husks used for packing was radioactive. They discovered something that was not public knowledge; the packaging was exposed to fallout from the world’s first nuclear bomb explosion.
X051Q TIL Neil Armstrong thought they had a 90 percent chance of getting back to Earth but only a 50-50 chance of making a successful moon landing on the first attempt. There were too many unknowns in descending from lunar orbit down to the surface that hadn't been demonstrated by testing
MA0W TIL unarmed citizen crime patrollers called the Guardian Angels - set up to fight subway crime in NYC in 1979 - faked incidents with “muggers” and “rapists” in order to gain publicity.