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TIL Steve Jobs is buried in an unmarked grave
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TIL About The Pig War, a confrontation in 1859 between the United States and the United Kingdom over the British–U.S. border in the San Juan Islands, so called because it was triggered by the shooting of a pig.
4voX
TIL that the Doctor who said that the MMR vaccine caused Autism (Andrew Wakefield) was paid £400,000 to do so by a group of lawyers looking to sue the manufacturers.
P1NEO
TIL The most powerful microscope in the world is the Titan Krios. A 12-foot cryogenic transmission electron microscope (cryo-EM), which costs upward of $6 million. It is the most powerful and flexible high-resolution TEM for 3D images of biological samples.
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TIL Charles Rigoulot a french weightlifter was jailed for hitting a Nazi gaurd, but broke out of his jail cell by bending the bars. He allowed other prisoners to escape as well. Then beat the guard who jailed him.
PYAGe
TIL about Bass Reeves, the first black deputy U.S. marshal west of the Mississippi River and a former slave. Over the course of his career, he had made over three thousand arrest, never got wounded (except for his hat and belt), and became one of Judge Issac Parker's most valued deputies.