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TIL Bayer once gave thousands of people AIDS to preserve their profit margins

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GYNl5 TIL the color of your earwax can reveal issues like vitamin defficiency, infection, and an injured ear canal among other things
WkMgN TIL that a man spent 60 hours underwater, in total darkness, after his vessel capsized and sunk to the bottom of the sea. He was discovered alive by divers sent to recover dead bodies.
MerD0 TIL During the Vietnam War the act of "Fragging" was when US troops would toss a grenade in their commanding officers tent; known and suspected fragging cases by explosives in Vietnam from 1969 to 1972 totaled nearly 900...
j6GoN TIL of "Mellified man", a medicinal substance created by steeping a human cadaver in honey that was apparently capable of healing broken limbs and other ailments.
NXVEQ TIL a blue whale's tongue can weigh more than an elephant, and it has a heart roughly the size of a small car.