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TIL that manmade air pollution is the cause of more than two million deaths every year globally

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rPQ1 TIL In 1994 a 75 pound bag of cocaine fell out of a plane and landed in the middle of a Crime Watch meeting in Florida
BgORL TIL that in 1943, Canadian legislation created a temporary extraterritorial space for the birth of Princess Margriet of the Netherlands. This ensured that Margriet was not born on foreign soil, which would have made her ineligible for the royal succession under the Constitution of the Netherlands.
VMkG0 TIL In 1874, The Munich physics professor Philipp von Jolly advised Max Planck against going into physics, saying, "in this field, almost everything is already discovered.
W80d TIL that the lowland gorilla’s scientific name is actually “Gorilla gorilla gorilla”.
wRZY TIL of Eduard Bloch the Jewish doctor of the Hitler family who treated Hitler’s mother before her death in 1907. Hitler granted him his “everlasting gratitude” and called him “noble Jew”. He was put under special protection by the Gestapo until he could move to America in 1940.