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TIL Drug trials done by Pfizer without parent consent in the 2000’s resulted in child deaths in Nigeria, and when the attorney general of Nigeria went after Pfizer they hired PI’s to coerce him into dropping all charges

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nxNG TIL after Luvosky left Microsoft for Google, Steve Ballmer picked up his chair, threw it across his office and said, “Fucking Eric Schmidt is a fucking pussy. I’m going to fucking bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I’m going to fucking kill Google
Zplxv TIL there are 8 Mediterranean seas. In oceanography, a Mediterranean sea is defined as a mostly enclosed body of water with limited exchange with outer oceans, where water circulation is primarily driven by salinity and temperature differences rather than winds or tides.
kOAw4 TIL on 1 May 1950 Mosinee, WI staged a communist take over where the mayor was dragged from his bed and "surrendered". The excitement caused him to have a heart attack, killing him 5 days later. The local minister also died after showing how he would hide a Bible from communists in a church organ.
VB4N8 TIL that in the Sundarbans mangrove swamps of Bangladesh and India, tigers kill up to fifty people a year, and the widows of men killed by tigers face cultural and religious ostracization, and are viewed as bad omens. Many are excluded from society to the point of having their children taken away.
bvJQ TIL that after needing 13 liters of blood for a surgery at the age of 13, a man named James Harrison pledged to donate blood once he turned 18. It was discovered that his blood contained a rare antigen which cured Rhesus disease. He has donated blood a record 1,000 times and saved 2,000,000 lives.