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TIL That Nokia Started As A paper mill company

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m1NNp TIL Donald Mastick accidentally tasted Plutonium and was banned from lab work. Despite this, he earned a physics PhD, started a highly successful interior landscape company, raised a family, and died of natural causes, all with few micrograms of Plutonium in his body.
PlAZ TIL 360 people on average die in police chases in the US every year, 1/3 being innocent bystanders. There is no mandatory reporting system, so it is speculated this number is 3-4 times higher.
oRdVY TIL about Tigress Khairi, a wild tigress raised by an Indian conservationist couple In the 1970s, Saroj Raj Choudhury and his wife whom they considered as their own daughter. She only ate from her foster mother's hand and would sleep in their bed. Tragically, she died early due to rabies from a dog.
ZpYW4 TIL the composer for the theme song of “the Rugrats” is Mark Mothersbaugh, cofounder of Devo.
N7D4E TIL Mongolian BBQ was invented in Taiwan in 1951 by a comedian