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TIL Eye Drops Can Kill You

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a8VGN TIL that Mattiedna Johnson, born to Mississippi sharecroppers in 1918, used techniques she’d used to make things like butter, jam and soap on her childhood farm to develop techniques to capture and preserve molds for research that eventually helped in the development of drugs to fight scarlet fever.
n0Yd TIL Jefferson Davis was never tried for treason in part because the federal government feared he may convince a jury that secession was not illegal.
WOXd TIL that Irritable Male Syndrome, is when men experience a decrease in testosterone. This may cause hypersensitivity, frustration, anxiety, and anger. This happens on a monthly cycle like PMS in women.
9bnQ TIL in the 1990s, Steve Wozniak, one of the founders of Apple, submitted so many high scores of the classic Gamboy game Tetris to Nintendo Power magazine that they eventually refused to print them. He then began sending them under the name “Evets Kainzow.”
ZnVR TIL, many Civil War battles have two names, because the Union named battles after natural features and the Confederacy after the man-made structures/towns nearby