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TIL that in 1948, a man robbed a bank by pretending to be a public health official and giving cyanide to every bank employee as a “dysentery inoculation.”

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kOoG5 TIL that Russia consumes about 12% of the world’s heroin, while it contains just 0.5% of the world’s population.
m1jRO TIL in 1961, Richard C. Legg was vertically impaled, catapulted upward and pinned to the ceiling when the nuclear reactor he was standing on exploded
xVY45 TIL that the U.S. Department of Defense spends over $84 million a year on Viagra (and other erectile dysfunction medications).
6EQw8 TIL that the wrath of the Mongolians was so feared that, according to tales, a lone Mongolian soldier could walk into a village and kill its inhabitants to his heart's content without anyone trying to resist him.
E1ag0 TIL that the Super Soaker was invented in 1990 by NASA engineer, and Air Force Veteran Lonnie George Johnson who describes himself as a "part of a small group of African-American inventors whose work accounts for 6 percent of all U.S. patent applications."