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TIL that on the 2nd April 2014 a bomb exploded in the bombers face because of daylight saving time

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WWXA TIL When Britain changed the packaging for Tylenol to blister packs instead of bottles, suicide deaths from Tylenol overdoses declined by 43 percent. Anyone who wanted 50 pills would have to push out the pills one by one but pills in bottles can be easily dumped out and swallowed.
GAZP1 TIL that the Archi language could have more than 1.5 million forms of a verb
x0bg TIL a one-eyed, mildly autistic doctor from California called the US housing bubble ahead of time and made approximately $100 million as a result.
68D7 TIL That Ken Griffey, Jr. played With His Dad during the MLB season of 1990 –and in one game, Sr. and Jr. hit back-to-back home-runs.
vPYBD TIL that in the 1970 film Waterloo, to recreate the battle sequences, production hired 17,000 members of the Soviet Army and trained them in 1815 battle formations.