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TIL that listed US Penny composition only adds up to 90%

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woA9J TIL Wagner Dodge escaped the Mann Gulch fire by lighting an "escape fire" in front of him and laying down on the now dead grass so the main fire could not engulf him.
4kdER TIL that Johns Hopkins had to retract a study about the effects of MDMA that they published because they realized that instead of ecstasy, they’d given METH to all but one of the research subjects.
v1Kl4 TIL Alan Turing was charged with "gross indencency" after self-reporting a burglary and telling the police about the relationship he had with a man he suspected was involved. He chose chemical castration as his sentence. This caused him to grow breasts, become depressed, triggers for his suicide.
LQrJV TIL that there is a Disney Professor of Archaeology at Cambridge, named for its benefactor, antiquarian John Disney.
ODP7 TIL in 1920 the US Army bombed coal miners in WV who were striking for better treatment and living conditions