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TIL: In 2022 A First-Aid Topical Gel Was Developed From Snake Venom To Drastically Reduce Bleeding By Triggering Coagulation In Under 60 Seconds

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epapJ TIL Walter Mondale became the first major candidate to ever lose election in all 50 states after losing the 2002 US Senate election in Minnesota, the only state that voted for him in the 1984 US Presidential election
myKo TIL that Joe Bell, the father of a son that committed suicide from gay bullying, planned to walk across the entire continental United States within 2 years to spread awareness over bullying and its effects, but was killed after 6 months by getting hit by a semi-truck.
xwAD TIL An amateur Canadian weatherman predicted, in his own words, an unpredictable earth quake 3 weeks before it hit New Zealand.
4WPo TIL that to this day, no one knows who turned in Anne Frank and her family to the Nazis.
a81xN TIL that Colonel Sanders once studied Law and served as a Justice of the Peace in Little Rock, but his legal career ended abruptly after he got into a courtroom brawl with a client.