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TIL canaries were used in coal mines to detect carbon monoxide

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KYkaB TIL that it's always been the women's fault in divorces, keep yo head up kings..!
7KVM TIL that in 2012, JC Penny implemented a “Fair and Square” policy that did away with sales prices and coupons that fool customers and instead priced everything at what it’s actually worth. Customers hated it, the CEO was fired, and the deceptive pricing was quickly reinstated.
yek8 TIL Science discovered almonds have 20% fewer calories than previously thought and challenge the way calories have been measured for 100 years
R5YK9 TIL researchers solved the mystery of kuru (the "laughing death") among the Fore tribe in Papua New Guinea by realizing the disease was transmitted during funerary cannibalism and proving it by infecting chimpanzees with infected human brain tissue.
DQJKJ TIL that Dr. Sigmund Rascher, who conducted inhuman experiments on concentration camp inmates, was executed at the end of World War II...not for his war crimes, but on the direct orders of Heinrich Himmler, for "financial irregularities" and other actions which embarrassed Himmler.