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TIL that Zarmanochegas was an indian monk of the Sramana tradition who, according to ancient historians, burnt himself to death in Athens

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gr8KA TIL Fritz Haber invented a process of ammonia synthesis both to save the world from starvation and to serve the German war machine. He never saw the creation of Zyklon B from his process and its use by the Nazis to kill his relatives in the gas chambers. His wife committed committed suicide.
yQo4v TIL no one really knew who designed the "solo jazz cup" blue and purple design that had become famous on the internet until an AMA request for the designer led to an investigative reporter in Springfield, MO discovering it was created by Gina Ekiss in 1989 as part of a design contest by the company.
GY4JE TIL that on the side of Prussia in the Napoleonic War a woman named Friederike Krüger served disguised as a soldier and after the discovery of her gender was not only NOT thrown out of the army, but was allowed to continue fighting and was even promoted several times.
9mGQ TIL in 2007, the House of Representatives of Oklahoma declared the watermelon, a fruit, their state vegetable.
XWxP TIL “eye of newt” in Macbeth is just a term for mustard seed