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TIL a pharmacist misread a woman’s prescription for dry eye medication and gave her a cream for erectile dysfunction instead. The woman suffered temporary chemical injuries to her eyes.

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OrP4 TIL Stephen Wolfram, creator of WolframAlpha, has kept every keystroke he has typed and every email for roughly the past 20 years in the hopes that he will be able to create an artificial intelligent program that will automatically respond to his emails.
gr5M8 TIL that Mike Tyson went bankrupt in 2003. Despite having earned $400 million from boxing, examples of reckless spending included $6.3 million on luxury cars and $580K on his 30th birthday party. He has improved his financial situation and now receives $900K/month from his cannabis company, however.
WkB6A TIL that Félicette, the only cat to survive a spaceflight, was honored in 2019 with a memorial at France's International Space University.
wLYm7 TIL in the '70s the Israeli government considered the color TVs a luxury that would increase social gaps. A "Color Killer" module had to be installed in imported TVs to prevent the appearance of color. Soon after, an Anti-"Color Killer" device was offered and purchased by 90% of color TV customers.
X0kxQ TIL at the start of WWII, allied forces in Dunkirk were cut off and surrounded by German troops and awaiting capture, as there weren't enough naval ships to evacuate them. Within 8 days, a hastily assembled fleet of over 800 civilian ships arrived and evacuated 338,226 troops.