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TIL New York has a memorial to Benedict Arnold's leg

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nemZG TIL that Cutter (a division of Bayer) knowingly sold blood tainted with the HIV virus to Taiwan, Malaysia, Argentina, China, and other "less developed countries", effectively infecting thousands of hemophiliacs with HIV.
b9N79 TIL that Déjà rêvé is the feeling of having already dreamed something that you are now experiencing.
GGnG TIL in 1932 Australia waged a war against Emus, known as the Great Emu War, but found that machine guns were ineffective at killing the birds.
Kr06 TIL a 54-yo man was riding a train in Essex when 6 women emerged from a toilet and attacked him, punching and kicking him out onto a platform where he fell on another woman who accused him of trying to steal her bag and punched him in the face. There was no explanation for the attack.
E1Z9w TIL a woman on the Oregon Trail went insane and decided to not travel further, her family continued the trail but eventually her husband sent their son back to get her, she then bashed her sons head with a rock and burned down one of the wagons