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TIL about a federal lawsuit filed against Walmart concerning a stainless steel travel mug bought there. After mango juice had been in the mug for around 10 days, in which fermentation happened, a woman removed the top. It propelled into her face causing jaw injuries

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4Xxnw TIL that the bullet lodged inside President Garfield likely didn't cause his death. At the time, Joseph Lister's ideas about germs had been widely accepted in Europe, but American doctors were still sceptical. Garfield's doctors used unsterilised instruments, causing an infection which killed him.
9rQ6 TIL that Nikola Tesla was an advocate of sterilizing criminals and people with mental problems, and he believed that by 2100 people who aren’t “desirable parents” shouldn’t be able to breed.
na1B TIL that Simon Pegg, Tom Hardy, Michael Fassbender, and Colin Hanks all starred in Band Of Brothers as background soldiers before they became stars
KO4YQ TIL that one time Queen Elizabeth hazed the crown prince of Saudi Arabia by speedily driving him around narrow Scottish estate roads in a Land Rover. At the time it was still illegal for women to drive in Saudi Arabia.
ZA7G TIL there is an island in Italy that is so haunted no one is allowed to go there. It is called Poveglia, a dump site for plague and black death victims & corpses, and later the site of an insane asylum.