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TIL Johnson & Johnson knew there was Asbestos in Baby Powder for decades

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p8LeQ TIL That the original Wiggles reunited for a charity concert in 2020 and Greg Page, the original yellow Wiggle, suffered cardiac arrest on stage, stopped breathing and had to be resuscitated with the defibrillator.
Z8WGR TIL Sir Issac Newton suffered a breakdown which included sending wild accusatory letters to John Locke that he: "endeavoured to embroil me with woemen"
xVvO1 TIL that the last French casualty of WWI, Augustin Trébuchon, was killed 15 minutes before the ceasefire at 11 o'clock in an attempt to tell his fellow soldiers that hot soup would be served after the armistice took effect.
GA1pG Today I learned about Frank Emmanuel Petersen Jr, the first black Marine Corp Aviator and General. Tomorrow is the anniversary of Peterson being promoted to brigadier general in 1979. The navy currently has a Arleigh-Burke class destroyer named after him the ship's motto is "Into the Tiger's Jaw!"
wbP6 TIL that in 2005 a blogger named Simon Ng blogged about his sister’s ex-boyfriend coming over 3 hours before the ex murdered him and his sister. His final blog post led police to apprehend their murderer.