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TIL in 1590 70 people mostly women were killed at the North Berwick Witch Trials because the king was convinced witches attacked his fleet with a storm

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XJnX TIL German scientist, Gerhard Domagk, developed the antibacterial agent Prontosil, a sulfonamide. He used this agent to treat his own daughter, preventing her from an arm amputation. He won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1939.
J4Wj TIL: That in 1962, a programmer omitted a single hyphen in the code for the Mariner I rocket, causing it to explode shortly after take off. This typo cost NASA the equivalent of $630 million dollars today.
GYj9j TIL That Reverse Racing was a huge and very challenging motor sport in the Netherlands thanks to the sale of DAF cars that had no speed limit for driving in reverse. It was eventually stopped because those cars were becoming collectors items and the sport was considered too dangerous.
Y7y8B TIL Canada doesn't have internal free trade
MAn8 TIL the only U.S. President depicted with a tobacco product in his official White House oil painting is Gerald R. Ford, who is holding his pipe.