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TIL that there is currently no anti-venom for coral snake bites because Pfizer didn’t find it profitable enough.

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6EgD7 TIL there is giant, hot pink slug. It is only found in a single, isolated forest on an extinct volcano in Australia.
jNDmR TIL restaurant owner Joseph Cerniglia committed suicide in the Hudson river in 2010. Gordon Ramsay had told him on Kitchen Nightmares that ‘Your business is about to fucking swim down the Hudson’ in 2007.
0wQEy TIL that a research suggests that humans fear cockroaches the most, even more than mosquitoes, due to an evolutionary aversion.
4XnvR TIL the current water speed record of 318mph (511.1kph) was set by an Australian in 1977 and remains unbroken to this day. Two attempt have been made to break this record in the past 40 years and both resulted in the deaths of their operators.
BrDRD TIL of George Pullman, a 19th century industrialist who built a company town adjacent to his factory, established behavioral standards that workers had to meet to live in the area, and charged them high rents, even as wages decreased.