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TIL Michael Jackson's "bad" Music Video Was Directed by Martin Scorsese

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OoW6X TIL of Hisashi Ouchi, a victim of a 1999 Japanese nuclear plant disaster. Radiation burns caused him to have nearly zero white blood cells. Despite his pleas, he was kept alive for research purposes. After 83 days in the hospital, he died of organ failure.
b9w5E TIL about a French chemist named Bertrand, who drank 5 grams of arsenic trioxide (a very poisonous substance) mixed with activated charcoal, just to demonstrate the adsorptive properties of activated charcoal and survived.
rR6v4 TIL that the United States' first department store was created in Utah, and lasted around 130 years before being sold to the Macy's Corporation
ea4L TIL that there were “Starvation Cells” in Auschwitz. The Starvation Cell was very simple - you were thrown into an empty cell, the door was locked, and you were left inside until you starved to death.
N7p06 TIL When Micheal Jordan signed his first professional contract it came with a unique clause allowing participation in competitive off-season pickup games. Specifically, this clause allowed for Jordan's "Love of the game" (a desire to play anywhere, anytime), regardless of potential liability.