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TIL that American WW2 general George S. Patton competed in the modern pentathlon in the 1912 Olympic Games

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NRQP TIL the Concorde plane used in the disaster film Concorde ‘79, was the same Concorde that would crash in France and kill 113 people 21 years later.
ner7Y TIL of "Futility", a novella about the Titan - the largest ship of its time. It's dubbed an "unsinkable" ship, and doesn't have enough lifeboats. It hits an iceberg in mid-April in the Atlantic and sinks, killing most of its passengers. The book was written 14 years before Titanic's maiden voyage.
4Xar6 TIL that, during the 1813–1814 Malta plague epidemic, concealing infection and moving between districts were made capital offenses
yY8M TIL Poor white southerners in American South, who were viewed in the North as lazy and stupid, were actually victim to a hookworm epidemic that turned them into listless imbeciles. Up to 40% were infected in the early 1900s.
7wXr TIL that NASA has discovered stars with temperatures lower than the human body. The star ‘WISE 1828+2650’ is less than 80 degrees Fahrenheit (25 Celsius).