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TIL about John Du Pont, heir to the Du Pont family fortune, and the only member of the Forbes 400 richest Americans list to have ever been convicted of murder.

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jND1E TIL of Victor Prather, a NASA pilot who successfully tested a new space suit in a low-orbit flight in 1961. Prather opened his suit’s faceplate when he could breathe again on descent, and landed in the ocean as planned; however, his suit’s buoyancy was ruined by his open faceplate, and he drowned.
kOQJ4 TIL most black olives are just unripe green olives treated with a solution to darken them
nWrYW Till in 1936 a group of Imperial Japanese Army officers attempted to coup d'état Japan
78ZpP TIL about the “small penis rule” - an informal strategy used by authors to evade libel lawsuits
kJ64E TIL Leonardo Da Vinci stole dead bodies to better understand human anatomy