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TIL that the guy who discovered the link between handwashing and germs, was criticised to the point that it destroyed his health, and later, him

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bbya TIL that there are 90 N64 games with the number 64 somewhere in the title.
a86XL TIL: One of the first attempts to develop a guidance system for bombs involved training a pigeon to peck at the image of a target on a screen inside the bomb.
D1vav TIL In LOTR from Bag End to Mt Doom, Frodo travels approximately 1,800 miles in 185 days. That’s an eminently achievable average of 9.73 miles each day. In the Hobbit, Bilbo, on the other hand, travels a total of 950 miles in 172 days — an average of just 5.52 miles per day.
Lk9L9 TIL: Nearly a third of homicides go unsolved in the US each year
WmnB TIL some free range turkey farms use alpacas to guard their flocks from foxes, since alpacas are extremely territorial and will accept the turkeys as part of their herd, defending them by chasing off predators