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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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mx5my TIL after 30 WWII veterans in their mid-nineties were shown ‘Dunkirk,’ the general consensus among them was that they loved the film and thought it captured events very accurately, but “thought the soundtrack was louder than the actual bombardment.” The comment amused Nolan greatly.
X7Bj TIL Erwin Rommel on being condemned to death for the July 20th plot against Adolf Hitler, chose an offer of suicide and took a cyanide pill, both to protect his staff and as a ‘blood guilt’ (Sippenhaft) law meant that his family would have been punished as well, and in this way both could be spared.
gM8r9 TIL that Lebron James rejected a $10 million offer from Reebok when he was just 18. When asked why, he said that Nike or Adidas might offer him a bit more. Less than a year later, he accepted a $90 million offer from Nike.
wxpJ TIL there are only 16 % religious people in Czech republic making them the most atheist country in Europe.
OodrR TIL in 1947 John Calhoun began a 2-year study of rats in a massive pen. Although 5 females could've produced 5,000 progeny, the population never pass 200. The rats did not scatter but organized themselves into 12 colonies of a dozen rats each. He noted that 12 was the maximum that can live in peace.