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TIL Uber Hasn't Had An Effect On Drunken-Driving Deaths

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VO6Z TIL Director Oliver Stone enlisted in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war and requested combat duty. He participated in more than 25 helicopter combat assaults. He was awarded the Bronze Star with “V” device for his heroism in ground combat, as well as a Purple Heart with an Oak Leaf cluster.
wL9PW TIL in 2018, a United Airlines flight attendant got annoyed by a dog barking and told the family to put him in the overhead bin. The dog died in there during the 4-hour-flight.
Zp7dD TIL of Tetragametic Chimerism, which occurs when a woman is pregnant with twins and one embryo dies, and the other embryo absorbs the twin's cells. Also it's potential impact on DNA tests, which lead to Lydia Fairchild being accused of fraud and not being the biological mother of her children.
Vvd0 TIL that Harvard has a pigment library where the sources of rare colors are stored. These sources include ground shells of now extinct insects, poisonious metals, and wrappings from Egyptian mummies.
wL56W TIL: When the dying star VY Canis Majoris collapses, it will produce 100 times more energy in ONE second than our sun will produce over its entire 10 billion year lifetime.