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TIL that during the American Civil War, Army chaplain Thomas Mooney baptized a cannon before being immediately removed from service

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QNGbE TIL Curtis Armstrong who played Booger in Revenge of the Nerds, also voiced Snot in American Dad.
Lk6yV TIL thief Matthew Ryan Hahn stole a safe that contained evidence of the sexual abuse of a child. He risked life imprisonment to turn in the memory card so police could “remove this animal from the streets”
gMkM7 TIL in 1589, William Lee was refused a patent grant for his knitting machine after Elizabeth I feared automation would lead to mass unemployment
BgEnK TIL Mexico is named after its capital Mexico City, not the other way around.
9Wvm TIL in 2013 a 27yo Psychology Student, who had already published articles in medical journals, died of a drug overdose while celebrating her new job - working as a drug counselor