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TIL on March 10, 1945, the U.S. carpet bombed Tokyo (specifically the area with homes made of wood and paper) with napalm, killing 105,400 people - putting it somewhere between the death toll of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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jb1p TIL that three Stanford “rocket scientist” mechanical engineering PhD students invented a disease-detecting breath analyzer and were approved to test their prototype on human patients – all in under one year, an almost unfathomable feat in the medical device realm
oBlor TIL of Naked Came the Stranger, a erotic romance novel written as a literary hoax by 24 different authors, each one taking a chapter. Some chapters had to be heavily edited because they were too well-written. Even after it was revealed to be a joke, it reached the NYTimes best-seller list.
dDKej TIL about Charles Neil and his involvement in the Neil-Reynolds report. President Roosevelt sent Neil and James Reynolds to inspect reports of bad slaughterhouse conditions. Their report, which highlighted revolting issues with American meats, led to the passage of the Meat Inspection Act.
8aA6b TIL about Leo major, a Canadian soldier who captured 100 German soldiers at d-day and later in Holland captured a city all by himself.
l7BLA TIL Elizabeth Holmes' father was a VP at Enron