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TIL Bayer sold HIV and Hepatitis C contaminated blood products that caused up to 10,000 people in U.S.A alone to contract HIV. After they found out they pulled it off the shelves in the U.S. and sold it to countries in Asia and Latin America so they wouldn't lose money from it.

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awkKo TIL that blond hair in humans developed only 11,000 years ago as an evolutionary response to the lack of sunlight in Northern Europe to enable more Vitamin D synthesis.
M7Okb TIL the day before his Assassination, Julius Ceasar held a dinner party where he was asked what the best way to die would be. He responded that a sudden and unexpected death would be ideal. One of his assassins, Decimus, was sitting right across from him.
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