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TIL Bayer knowingly sold HIV contaminated products to Latin America and Asia in 1984.

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Rj08 TIL Human Rights Watch released a 175 page report documenting human rights violations in the US meat and poultry industries
9YWM6 TIL Today China is experiencing piano frenzy with an estimated 40m children now learning to play. The instrument is increasingly in vogue among China’s burgeoning middle classes, who have the money to splurge on steep lessons and expensive fixtures. For many, owning a Steinway is a status symbol
R5rRj TIL that after Colonel Sanders sold KFC, he still made surprise visits to KFC restaurants. If the food disappointed him, he’d denounce it as "God-damned slop" or knock it on the floor. In 1973, KFC’s owner sued him for libel after he publicly called their gravy "sludge" with a "wall-paper taste.”
gGX7 TIL that the Pacific Ocean is so big it has its own antipodes (two points on exact opposite sides of the earth)
RL7w TIL that David Spade did not attend Chris Farley’s funeral because he “could not be in a room where Chris was in a box.”