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TIL: Aimo Koivunen was the first documented case of a soldier overdosing on meth during combat. During WW2, feeling tied he took his squad's entire supply of Army issued Pervitin (meth). He then entered a state of delirium, hit a land mine, and subsisted on pine buds and one bird for a week.

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XE596 TIL Art Babbitt, the creator of Goofy, became the face of the Disney animators' strike in 1941. He would scream at Walt through a bullhorn when he rolled into work and the two nearly got into a fistfight in the parking lot
D1Xrr TIL that Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book was written for St. Nicholas Magazine, a publication for children edited by Mary Mapes Dodge. Dodge, author of Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates, asked Kipling to contribute something and although he'd never written for children before, he said he'd try.
MeRMK TIL Casualty or ‘Mercy’ dogs were vital in World War One. They carried supplies so wounded soldiers could help themselves to supplies and tend to their own wounds, whilst other more gravely wounded soldiers would seek the company of a Mercy dog to wait with them whilst they died.
69QKw TIL In 1894, the American Railway Union organized a national boycott and strike against all trains hauling Pullman Cars in response to a strike called by workers at the Pullman Palace Car Company. 34 were killed over 2 weeks.
ELeo TIL - Friedrich Nietzsche held a pessimistic view on modern society and popular culture. He believed the press and mass culture led to conformity and brought about mediocrity resulting in a lack of intellectual progress, leading to the decline of the human species..