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

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d8EDd TIL: Black peoples’ skin only has a built in spf of up to 10, so everyone should wear proper suntan lotion.
ANQ0w TIL After the Aral Sea dried up significantly, Kazakhstan revived the northern part of the lake while the South Aral Sea in Uzbekistan is almost completely desiccated. Kazakhstan’s 12km-long dyke saved part of the northern sea by connecting it with the southern section
e0Lak TIL about Cat Island. The cats were originally introduced to combat rodents on fishing boats, but remained on the island and reproduced in large numbers, currently outnumbering humans 36:1
X079D TIL so many Royal English babies died that when Alfred of Great Britain died at age 1 in 1780 there was a policy against mourning the deaths of Royal children under age seven.
rRnlo TIL that when Def Leppard recorded Pour Some Sugar On Me their drummer Rick Allen only had one arm. He had lost it in a car crash in 1984. The song was released on their Hysteria-album in 1987.