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TIL That Ashley Eckstein has her own Star Wars clothing brand

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Drgr TIL during the Vietnam War special forces used a silenced pistol called a ‘hush puppy’ for eliminating noisy animals like guard dogs. It was also sometimes used on ducks.

p8DJp TIL that Cashews (and Mangoes) are in the same family as Poison Ivy. In fact Cashew shells, when freshly picked, cause poison-ivy type symptoms.

PYpYJ TIL About Lise Meitner, a woman who described a groundbreaking phenomenon called nuclear fission in a letter to Nature Editor, she was ignored because she was Jewish and five years later Otto Hahn won a Nobel prize for the same discovery.

VBpGD TIL One of the reasons that Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton Had their famous duel was because Burr wanted to turn the Manhattan Company into a bank. After the death of Hamilton he did just that helping to start the Manhattan Bank which later on became JPMorgan Chase.

neeg9 TIL that Lieutenant Paul Stamets in the new Star Trek: Discovery is based on a real American mycologist.