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TIL: Chemists Frank Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina were ridiculed by representatives of the aerosol and halocarbon industries for their hypothesis that CFCs would lead to depletion of the ozone layer. The chair of DuPont called it: "a science fiction tale...a load of rubbish...utter nonsense".

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VB6eD TIL men are advised not to father children until six months after they stop using grisovin (active ingredient griseofulvin) as it may cause abnormalities in sperm cells
x6e1b TIL: The Berenstein Bears and Berenstain Bears both existed
0wb0A TIL that during the Peloponnesian war the entire island of Delos was purged of all dead bodies as a form of 'purification' by the city-state of Athens, as well as prohibiting everybody from dying and giving birth. (5 BC)
KOawQ TIL that the World’s first speeding ticket was given to Walter Arnold in Kent for going at 8 mph on a road with a 2mph speed limit.
d8P88 Today I learned that Operation Meetinghouse, which occured from March 9-10th 1945, was the single most destructive bombing raid in human history