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TIL the inventor and promoter of leaded petrol, Thomas Midgley Jr, went on to also invent Freon - the first chloroflurocarbon. His last invention, a pully system to help him get out of bed while suffering polio, tangled up one day and strangled him.

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Zrk4 TIL the rarest element on Earth is the halogen Astatine. It’s so rare that only 30 grams of it can be found at any point in time on Earth, and only 0.05 micrograms of it has been produced to date. Most of its properties are unknown and no one has ever seen it in its natural form.
jJYR TIL Former French President, Félix Faure, died at age 59 from a massive stroke while making love to his mistress. French newspapers and political leaders spread rumors of his death including that his “stiff hands were entangled in her hair” and that he had to be surgically separated from her.
b9WQ7 TIL The second person to survive going over Niagra falls in a barrel, Bobby Leach, later died after slipping on an orange peel
LDAd TIL while Lord Byron was at university, school regulations prevented him from keeping a dog. In lieu of the dog, Byron kept a tame bear on campus.
ONrg TIL in the 1936 Olympics, promoted by Hitler to prove that whites are superior, Peru beat Austria 4-2 on soccer, even though they had 3 other goals nullified. Later, the Olympic Comitee nullified the match and scheduled a rematch, to be taken under close grounds. Peru withdrew from the Olympics