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TIL there is a floating prison in America

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grjW4 TIL Robert Kehoe discovered reports that the chemical benzidine caused bladder cancer. His client, DuPont, made benzidine. Instead of alerting the American public, Kehoe stuffed the report in a box. The moldy records were unearthed decades later when DuPont’s employees, stricken with cancer, sued.
kJvyW TIL The name "bonobo" resulted from a misspelling. These apes were found in the town of Bolobo, Zaire, in the '20s, but the name of the place was misspelled "Bonobo" on the shipping crate in which the animal was placed, leading others to refer to the animal by the name, which stuck.
NX0nM TIL pineapples grow in bushes, not on trees.
Q1Dk TIL a master impersonator and identity thief with no medical training, imperonsated a surgeon on board a ship, read some text books and performed life saving surgery on wounded soldiers.
8jyZ TIL that When you are thinking about something in such a way that you are forming words in your mind, you are actually speaking those words extremely quietly. Your vocal chords are moving, and a very sensitive microphone would be able to record what you are “thinking.”