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TIL that although botox is commonly used to reduce wrinkles, it is also the most toxic substance known to man, a spoonful of the protein has the potential to kill 1.2 billion people.

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7r5xO TIL about a Mexican plane that made an emergency landing on a race course in Mallow, Ireland, in 1983. In order for the plane to successfully take off again, a runway had to be specially built so the captain and crew spent 39 day in the town and became minor celebrities among the locals
awOOZ TIL Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin moved to Singapore before Facebook went public and therefore saved himself as much as $100 million in U.S. Capital Gains Taxes
5YPgB TIL in 2016, Apple released software that would self-destruct iPhones if a repair was made on it by a third party, forcing customers to buy a new one. These practices were found illegal in countries with consumer laws such as Australia, forcing Apple to stop.
5Y5Z9 TIL that the last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor (age 97) says that what he witnessed in Europe still haunts him “every single day of his life.”
R5ap6 TIL revenge killings were legal in Japan up to 1873