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TIL that poison control was started by one Chicago pharmacist that started keeping notes on new cleaning products when people came into the ER and started taking calls at home 24/7

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8ekJ8 TIL the reason why old sports photos often have a blue haze is because the arenas were filled with people smoking cigarettes
w8n8 TIL That France produces so much nuclear energy that it actually exports energy and makes a profit.
nvb9 TIL That there is a suspended monorail in Germany that was build in 1897 and still moves 25 million passengers annually.
WbEd TIL: The Guatemalan Special forces, the Kaibiles, are infamous for forcing recruits to raise a puppy, bonding with it and then killing and eating it. Recruits are also shot and forced to perform field surgery on themselves, and they also have to drink water out of recently fired artillery shells.