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TIL: Ibuprofen relieves women’s hurt feelings, but not men’s

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6aRm TIL TIL 98 years ago Indian Meat Packing Company agreed to sponsor an employee team for $500. Three years later they dropped their ownership. The Packers are worth more than 1.4 billion today.
ogWA TIL that the Unabomber, the Shoe Bomber, the Atlanta Olympic Park bomber, the 1993 World Trade Center bombers, and one of the Oklahoma City bombers are all incarcerated at the same prison.
nWEV7 TIL that in Hamtramck MI there's a Jewish cemetery surrounded by an active GM manufacturing plant.
wokl1 TIL The Inquisition never actually ended, is still ongoing, and is now known as "The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith"
j6wmn TIL that Neil Harbisson — an artist born with complete color-blindness — became the world's first "cyborg" after he got an antenna implanted in his head that translates different wavelengths of light into vibrations on his skull, which he then perceives as sound.