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TIL that Michael Jackson didn’t celebrate his first Christmas until he was 35 years old

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XElbQ TIL In May 1953, scientists in the British Ministry of Defence tested the nerve-gas sarin on the 20-year-old Ronald Maddison, who had unwittingly volunteered for the experiment thinking it would involve some very minor tests.
y6m8 TIL the US government killed an estimated 10,000 people by intentionally poisoning alcohol during prohibition
PYloV TIL that a study co-authored by hundreds of physicists, "The Effects of Peanut Butter on the Rotation of the Earth," is only one sentence long: "So far as we can determine, peanut butter has no effect on the rotation of the earth."
4XJo6 TIL that beer was considered a “soft drink” in Russia until 2011
6WyY TIL water, electricity and gas has been free in Turkmenistan since 1991.