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TIL use of the Nazi hand salute is currently a criminal offense in Germany, Italy, Japan, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Austria.

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yQjwe TIL that two window-washers and a health food store owner founded Unadulterated Food Products in 1972. After creating a batch of apple juice that accidentally fermented in the bottle and caused the caps to snap off, they began calling the drink Snapple which later became the company name.
e0844 TIL that the most expensive medicinal drug ever is Zolgensma (produced by Novartis), which costs $2.125 million for a single dose. The drug is a gene therapy, taken as a one-time treatment for spinal muscular atrophy, a rare genetic disorder (about 30 babies are born each month with the disease)
AD0md TIL Kodak discovered the US was testing atomic bombs because the corn husks used for packing material were fogging film because they had been exposed to radiation.
8aBxK TIL about Clarence Dally, perhaps the first person to die of man-made radiation in 1904. He was an assistant to Thomas Edison on a new x-ray machine. He had to have both of his hands amputated but eventually died from cancer. Edison refused to work with x-rays ever again.
GY7Oj TIL: The letters Q, W and X were illegal in Turkey for 85 years until 2013 because the letters were associated with the Kurdic language. Enforcement wasn't that strict for Western companies (like Xerox), but in 2005 a group of Kurds was fined 100 lira for holding up signs with the letters