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TIL despite having PTSD after being buried alive by a bomb, & having a doctor's testimony that he'd been unfit to command, Eric Poole became the first commissioned officer to be executed by British military authority in WW1, after deserting

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4OEo TIL that scientists were monitoring whale stress levels by analyzing their poop and found that their stress plummeted immediately following the 9/11 attacks. Turns out this was due to all ship traffic being halted which quieted the oceans of low frequency noise which whales use to communicate
J1O5m TIL about The Colour of Animals, an 1890 book which made the first comprehensive argument about why animals are coloured the way they are.
9YO46 TIL that Edmund Ironside was allegedly stabbed whilst on a toilet, by an assassin hiding in the pit beneath. The assassin escaped after leaving the weapon fixed in Edmund's bowels
j6poa TIL of Capgras Delusion - A psychological disorder in which a person believes that a friend, family member, or pet has been replaced by an identical imposter.
neoWo TIL the scientist that discovered stomach ulcers were caused by bacteria proved his hypothesis by swallowing live bacteria and then taking antibiotics to cure himself. Before, his hypothesis was mocked by other scientists.