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TIL that 'Coma' (1978) so scared audiences that organ donations in cities dropped by up to 60% that year. The film, in which patients are killed for body parts, also caused people to ask hospitals to buy or sell organs; the Eye Bank received 24 offers to sell eyes for $5-10,000.

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NXARJ TIL South Korean support for Korean Reunification has been decreasing over the years. In the 1990s, over 80% of people in government polls viewed reunification as essential. By 2011 that number had dropped to 56%. In 2017, 72.1% of South Koreans in their 20s viewed reunification as unnecessary.
jNQpR TIL: QANTAS has transported a spare engine before by attaching it to the wing and making the 747 look like it is imbalanced and has 5 engines
xAbw TIL Bayer sold HIV and Hepatitis C contaminated blood products that caused up to 10,000 people in U.S.A alone to contract HIV. After they found out they pulled it off the shelves in the U.S. and sold it to countries in Asia and Latin America so they wouldn’t lose money from it.
ZpEa4 TIL that potato “eyes”come from undifferentiated stem cells that can sense their environment and decide whether to grow roots or shoots based on where they are. If they are underground they become roots, above ground they become shoots and grow leaves.
RoA8 TIL in 1983, a small town in Missouri was permanently evacuated after high levels of dioxin was discovered in soil samples. It was discovered that a man hired to oil the dirt roads to keep dust down had used waste from a company making Agent Orange.