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TIL Only 4% of Irish people have red hair

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4Xk4g TIL in 1982, 7 people died from bottles of Tylenol which were laced with cyanide. The perpetrator has never been found.
7LJP TIL that if George Washington had been America’s king instead of its first president, an 82-year-old retired regional manager from San Antonio, Texas would likely be King of America today
NXbx8 TIL Walmart pulled a "pregnant" Midge doll, who came with baby Nikki inside her magnetic womb and was marketed as Barbie's best friend, after complaints from customers which included: She did not (initially) come with a wedding ring, she promoted teen pregnancy, and was packaged without husband Alan
bXY0 TIL that the CGI Empire State Building from Peter Jackson’s “King Kong” took 18 months to create. The real building only took 14 months.
rR6pW TIL that the most successful female sniper in history, Ludmila Pavlichenko, couldn't pull the trigger on her first kill, until she saw a German shooting a young Russian soldier. She went on to record 309 confirmed kills in WWII.