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TIL that Ozzy Osbourne was a target of research about drug resistance, since a normal human was not supposed to survive the amount of drug abuse that he goes through.

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gJ6y TIL on May 23rd, 1967 the U.S. air force was set to initiate a nuclear strike against Russia after a sudden disruption of their radar detection systems. They were ordered to stand down after the then recently created Solar Forecasting Center determined that solar flares had caused the disruption
J1884 TIL Bed bugs were all but eradicated in the developed world in the 1950s but had a resurgence in the 1990s due to factors including increased international travel, lack of public awareness
E1Pk0 TIL in 2011, a write-in candidate for a board of education election needed only one vote to win, but she lost because she thought her friends/family would vote (they didn't) and was too busy at her son's baseball game to vote for herself.
PYANE TIL that Babe Ruth was the first human to receive chemotherapy.
W7EBY TIL that one of Pharoh Ramesses III's wives plotted to have him killed through his royal harem to have her son succeed him. He died, but his chosen heir still managed to take the throne.