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til: The guy who invented the gas mask (respirator) died in a balloon accident at the age of 31. As a result his soon to be wife killed herself

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Z8nKa TIL after the Chinese Civil War, several units of the Nationalist army fled to Burma. When recalled to Taiwan, some refuse and marched into Thailand, where they grew opium while fighting Communists for the government. Their village is now "one of Thailand's top ten destinations among backpackers."
rBke TIL Bill Gates once released a jar full of mosquitos into the audience during a TED talk on malaria
GYWZN TIL ELO's first album "The Electric Light Orchestra" has a different name in the US. The american record company tried to call and confirm the name of the album. When they failed to reach anyone on the phone, they wrote down "No Answer", which someone misconstrued as the name of the album.
mxjEp TIL In their 30 years together, Paul and Linda McCartney spent only one night apart
VB6wm TIL that Stanley Kubrick, who has four films on the AFI's Top 100 list of all time (2001, Dr. Strangelove, Clockwork Orange, Spartacus), never received either an Oscar or a Golden Globe for his directorial work.