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TIL Wayne’s World was responsible for starting the phrase “that’s what she said” and the “not” joke

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nAPd TIL during the 1980s Bayer knowingly sold HIV contaminated blood to Asia and Latin America. About 20,000 people contracted HIV from the results. Bayer paid approx $50M USD to the victims, which averages $2,500 per individual.
16gW4 TIL that approximately 65000 tonnes of chemical warfare agents (CWA), for example, mustard gas, Clark I, Clark II, Lewisite and Adamsite, were dumped in Baltic Sea and Skagerrak from 1947 to 1948.
Z84mR TIL about Air New Zealand flight 901, which provided sightseeing flyovers of Antarctica until it crashed into the side of Mount Erebus in November 1979. Most of the wreckage is still there, and can periodically be seen during warmer weather.
o6mE TIL that there is an upside down traffic signal in Syracuse, New York because the Local Irish kids didn’t want British red above Irish green.
p8VPA TIL that during Prohibition, the US Congress had their own alcohol bootlegger named George Cassiday who operated for 5 years before being arrested. He delivered 25 orders per day to a private storeroom in the basement of the House Office so he could avoid the Capitol Police.