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TIL Researchers have found a link between pigmentation (melanocortin system) and aggression/promiscuity in animals

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9Ymxr TIL that a "loose cannon" is an apt name for something out of control: when an 8000 pound cannon came loose from a mooring on a ship, it could wreak terror on the crew as it wiped out anything or person in its path and destroyed the ship's walls
9YBbM TIL during WWII one soldier by himself, used an MG to repel a German infantry attack and killed over 100 German soldiers.
QNl7E TIL Sen. Joseph McCarthy was addicted to morphine at the end of his life and his supplier was the Head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics
xkj0 TIL In 1945, Japanese radar operators detected a small number of incoming US planes (which carried the nuclear bombs to be dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki), but decided not to intercept them as the small number of planes were not seen as a threat.
a8NAM TIL that MLB player Marty Bergen, who killed his entire family and himself in 1900, still received a few votes for the Hall of Fame.