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TIL Nestlé once gave mothers in third world nations baby formula which lasted just long enough for their breast milk to run which caused infant deaths due to lack of ability and knowledge to properly prepare the formula

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LQxW0 TIL landscape was sacred for Hittites: "No one violates a boundary or road, for boundaries are the knees of the Storm-god and a road is his chest. If someone violates a boundary, he makes the Storm-god weary in his knees, if someone violates a road, he makes the Storm-god weary in his chest."
jmbQ TIL since 1944, there’s a ship with 1.4 Kilo tonnes of vaguely live bombs lying in the Thames river in London.
PlMJ TIL that the US bailout was significantly more than $700 Billion and that the pledge actually reached $11.7 Trillion.
P19nZ TIL early humans and neanderthals did sex acts together and likely gave birth to "hybrid" babies according to studies of ancient teeth
OG9NX TIL of “Lonesome Gal,” who played a wildly popular virtual girlfriend over the radio in the 1950’s