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TIL less Americans died in combat during the American Revolutionary War (~6800) than died from disease (~17000)

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jXLv TIL Up until 1915 it was legal to mail a baby by US Mail
BrXbd TIL of Geertruida Wijsmuller-Meijer, a Dutch woman who saved 10,000 Jewish children by charming and bribing Dutch train workers and German officers including a young Adolf Eichmann. Research suggests she saved more Jewish lives than all but Raoul Wallenberg.
9bM TIL Intel spilled 1.4 tons of carbon tetrachloride in Rio Rancho, New Mexico in 2003. Deceased dogs in the area were found to have high levels of toluene, hexane, ethylbenzene, and xylene isomers in their lungs. Intel later lied and reported no release of carbon tetrachloride for all of 2003.
Jy5j TIL the whiptail lizard is an all female species, the males have gone completely extinct. They’re not hermaphroditic, the females actually lay, and hatch from unfertilized eggs
GYOmG TIL that although Jim Brown is considered one of the all-time NFL greats, he may have been an even better lacrosse player, scoring 42 goals in 10 games as a senior at Syracuse.