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TIL When William Leonard Pickard was arrested, the worlds acid supply decreased by 90%.

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GAmNG TIL PFC Sadeo Munemori was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for diving on a live grenade. He was the only Japanese American decorated during or immediately after WWII.
nWjOY TIL that Earth is the only known place in our solar system where fire occurs and no known exoplanets have oxygen enough to allow fire.
Amgw TIL: “Generational Curses” may be a real thing. There was a study where mice were given a small shock to the foot at the same time as the smell of acetophenone. After 10 days, they mated. The children mice inherited a fear of the odor even though they had never been exposed to it before.
DQ7Qr TIL about Gaston Henri de Bourbon, a bastard who became the bishop of Metz at the age of 11 despite never getting ordained as a priest and kept the title for 40 years. He also never resided in Metz.
E1JVx TIL In 1996, a group of scientists claimed to have found evidence of microscopic fossils formed by Martian primitive life billions of years ago on a meteorite discovered in Antarctica.