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TIL that although lead paint was recognized as toxic as early as 1897 and banned by the League of Nations in 1922, the US did not ban lead paint until 1971.

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oBNwo TIL: A christian socialist movement occurred in China during 1851-1864. It was lead by a man who proclaimed that he was the brother of Jesus. More than 30 million people died as a result of the rebellion.
YjwG TIL over 22 million chickens are eaten in the US every day.
7DEX TIL that in December 1943, mustard gas caused 628 allied casualties, with 83 killed, following a German bombing raid on Bari in southern Italy. In 1959, it was revealed that the gas had actually come from an anchored US transport ship that was carrying 2000 mustard gas bombs.
0dRdy TIL about the expulsion of the Turks from Crete. Once composing over a third of the Islands population, the Turkish Population on Crete was expelled and exchanged in 1898 following ethnic violence and the Greco-Ottoman Wars, leaving the island in Greek hands.
R76o6 TIL - Rob Cantor created a song where Shia LaBeouf is a ruthless cannibal.