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KOoEw TIL of Miki Endo, a Japanese emergency worker who gave her life during the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, by continuing to broadcast warnings and alerts over the community loudspeaker as the tsunami overwhelmed the town of Minamisanriku. She was credited with saving many lives.
R7XGQ TIL that shortly after his 101st birthday, Albert Hoffman, the swiss chemist known for discovering LSD, wrote a letter to Steve Jobs asking for his assistance in a study about the therapeutic uses of LSD. Jobs once famously said that taking LSD was one of the 2 or 3 most important things he'd done.
N7ePN TIL the United States is not even in the top 10 most obese countries
4X95o TIL Nine-banded armadillos always have litters of identical quadruplets
YEvr TIL in England during WWII the US military demanded segregation. The locals in Lancashire complied and put a “Black Troops Only” sign on a pub and a mini-race-war ensued.