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TIL There's a "Museum of Failure" in Sweden which highlights 150+ failed products. It's meant to show that innovation requires risk-taking and failure.

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MrL0 TIL Nelson Mandela lost his son to the AIDS epidemic and personally wrote checks to help fund the cost of treatment for AIDS patients
7w87 TIL Melvin E. Biddle, for his actions during the Battle of the Bulge, earned the Medal of Honor on October 30, 1945, by President Truman. When presenting the medal, Truman whispered “People don’t believe me when I tell them that I’d rather have one of these than be President.”
eeQJ TIL Gerard Butler was a week short of becoming a lawyer and instead moved to London to become an actor… presumably after watching Star Wars
PYZdg TIL that after an intense 8 artillery week barrage, British troops on the first day of the Battle of the Somme were so sure of their victory that 4 platoons had a competition to see who could kick a soccer ball into the German trenches first. Nearly 20,000 British men were killed that day
d8lmj TIL 30/31 of the first popes were murdered & while most of them were martyred, not all causes of their deaths are known.