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TIL that Roald Dahl wrote ‘The Twits’ because he hated beards and wanted to “do something against [them]”

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DQO1V TIL that Natalie Portman has had papers published in two scientific journals. While at Harvard, she co-authored a study called “Frontal Lobe Activation during Object Permanence: Data from Near-Infrared Spectroscopy.”
wGG8 TIL that in World War II, American soldier John R. Fox died when he deliberately called an artillery strike on himself. Realizing that German troops were overrunning his party’s position, the strike delayed the enemy long enough for other American units to organize a counter attack.
yVmXX TIL that President Nixon’s daughter, Julie Nixon Eisenhower, is married to President Eisenhower’s grandson
M9b8 TIL that while attending Harvard in 1959, the “Unibomber” Ted Kaczynksi participated in a study where he was subjected to a “purposely brutalizing psychological experiment,” which some lawyers attribute some of his future emotional instability and dislike of mind control.
nWMaP TIL in 1937 a natural gas leak caused a school to explode in Texas, killing at least 295 people. Witnesses described seeing the walls bulge and the roof lifting off the building before it collapsed.