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TIL: US President Eisenhower warned of an “out of hand” military industrial complex in his farewell speech

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7Elr TIL A man robbed a bank by poisoning the staff with cyanide, he disguised himself as a public health offical sent to do dysentery innoculations. 10 people died.
Y7MQW TIL that “under the weather,” meaning, feeling ill, is from sailors. On the high seas when the wind blow hard and rough water crewmen would go below deck and down to their cabins in order to ride out the storm to avoid seasickness. They literally retreat to a location “under the weather"
5VW8P TIL that actress Brooke Shields is descended from both the Medici and Borgia families, along with both Harold Godwinson and William the Conqueror.
AN7Kg TIL Terry Pratchett had all his unfinished works destroyed by steamroller after his death
d8rdr TIL that insects don't have lungs. They just kinda absorb oxygen and it is related to their size, i.e. why bugs got so big when the Earth had more oxygen.