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TIL that as many as 1 million Vietnamese people are disabled or have health problems as a result of U.S. use of Agent Orange in the Vietnam War. Nearly 20 million gallons of various herbicides and defoliants were sprayed over Vietnam between 1962 and 1971 by the U.S. military.

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M5pV TIL A tradition of High Wycombe, UK, involves its Mayor being weighed annually in public on a specially erected scale, and their weight compared with the previous year. If it has increased, it means they have been indulging in too much good living at taxpayers’ expense, and the crowd jeers and boos
1MDO TIL an 1880’s guy’s GF committed suicide. Her brother, enraged, shot the man in the face & then committed suicide. However, the bullet only grazed his face & hit a tree. 20 years later the man dynamited the tree which sent the bullet flying into his head, finally killing him.
BxBL TIL in 1968 a school teacher divided her class by eye color to teach them about discrimination. The kids got discriminatory pretty quickly.
QJNL TIL That Until the 1800s, Turkish women suspected of cheating were tied in a sack with cats and thrown into the ocean.
lQ4V TIL that the Catholic church objected Lightning rods until a gunpowder explosion in Brescia caused by a lightning strike killed 3000.