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TIL the city of Vernon in the LA area is exclusively industrial and its only residents are the city administration and its employees.

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pExp TIL the german banker who claimed is bank was committing fraud and was locked up for being crazy, already won his case and is now a free man
QNQ8L TIL After poisoning Sergei and Yulia Skripal, the perpetrators disposed of the evidence (disguised as a perfume bottle) in a rubbish bin. The bottle was recovered and brought home where a woman applied it to her skin and she later died
epAjD TIL about Operation Abacus, a Canadian military operation in response to anticipated disruption due to the Y2K bug. It was intended as a contingency plan not just to coordinate the protection of government computers but also ensure social order if computing systems went down.
OGxA6 TIL that in 1900, a physician named Jesse William Lazear wanted to prove that yellow fever was transmitted by mosquitoes. He allowed an infected mosquito to bite him, and he became infected with yellow fever, proving the hypothesis correct. He died 17 days later.
n1nb TIL that some airlines require a pilot and co-pilot to consume different meals from each other, in case one makes you sick