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XEoMX TIL: 'One of the largest human experiments in history' was conducted on unsuspecting residents of San Francisco. Over the next 20 years, the military would conduct 239 "germ-warfare" tests…
1lnX TIL: No expert can verify the origins of Friday the 13th. But the first written references to its wickedness appear around the mid-19th century when William Fowler, a U.S. Army captain, founded the Thirteen Club — a group of 13 men in Manhattan devoted to proving the superstitions were false.
mx1rv TIL Since humans became aware of our own mortality roughly 150,000 years ago, we have only developed one mechanism of dealing with the existential anxiety that accompanies it: denial.
VMg5p TIL Bob Ebeling, The Challenger Engineer Who Warned Of Shuttle Disaster, Died Two Years Ago At 89 After Blaming Himself His Whole Life For Their Deaths.
1J67 TIL the judge presiding over a lawsuit brought against Eminem delivered the judgment in the form of a rap. It finished: ‘It is therefore this court’s ultimate position / That Eminem is entitled to summary disposition.’