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TIL that Bayer, one of the biggest pharmaceutical company, was involved in human trafficking during WWII, where they bought groups of women from Auschwitz to conduct secrets experiments on them.

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x65kD TIL that the recently revived sport of SlamBall was invented by Mason Gordon, a TV writer who had penned episodes of Nickelodeon's "Kenan & Kel" and "Cousin Skeeter."
9Yx97 TIL that Penn Station was actually once an elegant, beautiful building that was torn down in the 1960s, which caused such outrage that it led to the historical preservation of many of New York's buildings today.
XEAX6 TIL about Gladys West, a black woman who was inducted into the Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame earlier this month for creating a precise mathematical model of the Earth in the 1980's that would be critical for the development of GPS technology.
l7vM5 TIL National Tea Day is a popular event celebrated in many countries around the world, on April 21st.
epDw4 TIL that a "dale" is a valley in an otherwise hilly area while a "glen" is a secluded and narrow valley.