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TIL Mac Hadley, experimented on himself by injecting a sunless tanning compound he was working on, but instead it gave him an eight-hour erection along with nausea and vomiting

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ANJAa TIL only one American soldier has been executed for desertion since the civil war. Eddie Slovik was executed by firing squad for fleeing after being assigned to a front-line rifle company.
18Vr TIL of The Grandmaster Experiment: Man finds wife based on her committal to creating children with the sole purpose of training them to become geniuses. He succeeds and has 3 daughters - all of which became Chess Grandmasters and the first women to achieve such status.
VMrRp TIL: Tourists at Yala National Park on Sri Lanka's SouthWest coast who fell victim to the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami were unable to spot any wildlife on safari because the animals had sensed the tremor vibrations 4 days earlier and fled to higher ground
4E5a TIL In Old English the word “man” was originally gender neutral, encompassing all human beings, while the word for man was “wer” as in “werewolf”
QJy6a TIL Mark Hamill is voice actor of Fire Lord Ozai