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Oo1na TIL in the 16th and 17th centuries, English people literally bought their military ranks. In 2020 USD, 130k or so for cavalry, up to 1.6 million for lt. colonel
9Y8n6 TIL that in Oklahoma there exists a ghost town so polluted from lead mining that leftover minerals have caused the rivers to turn red. Children who went swimming in the arsenic-filled water thought they were just getting sunburnt - in reality, they were being covered in chemical burns.
R7xlw TIL in spite of it’s famous meltdown of reactor #4 in 1986, and a fire in 1991, Chernobyl continued to operate until 2000
vZKj TIL there is a sea snail that wears a suit of iron plated armor. It is the only known animal to use iron sulfide as skeletal material.
bgj TIL: There was a wrestler named The Final Solution. The WCW claimed they had no idea that Hitler used that term for the Holocaust.