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TIL; Bayer knowingly sold AIDS Contaminated Hemophilia blood products worldwide because the financial investment in the product was considered too high to destroy the inventory.

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r6kM TIL that Bill Murray does not answer fan mail because he doesn’t “have time for those idiots” trying to get rich collecting famous people’s autographs.
4XlQw TIL the twitter bird is named Larry. It was named after NBA legend Larry Bird. Twitter’s co-founder, Biz Stone, is a Boston native.
xOm1 TIL archaeologists had found a ring inside a 9th century Viking grave that is inscribed with the phrase ‘for Allah’.
QJYKL TIL the Graf Zeppelin was the first airship to offer commercial transatlantic flights, to cross the Pacific without stops, to circumnavigate the world, and to travel over a million miles.
ZpyWo TIL that some medieval monks interpreted the scriptural Nemo Deum vidit (“No one hath seen God”), along with many other references to No-one in the Bible, to mean that Nemo was a certain person. Everything impossible, inadmissible, inaccessible is, on the contrary, permitted for Nemo.