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TIL - Pornhub offered to donate money to the Susan G. Komen “for the cure” breast cancer foundation if their audience watched videos of women with large breasts. The money was raised, but Komen refused the donation.

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GAV87 TIL: Arsenic was sold as a beauty product in the late 1800s, women would nibble on wafers or even wash with the poison, hoping to achieve an ideal complexion that was free of “freckles, black-heads, and pimples."
bvZa TIL Richard Owen (who created the word Dinosaur) exploited his crippled peer Gideon Mantell, by claiming ownership and renaming his discoveries. After Mantels suicide, Owen wrote his obituary calling Mantell a mediocre Scientist. He then had Mantells spine removed, pickled, and stored.
yQBjJ TIL of Bradley Birkenfeld, a whistleblower who revealed the secrets behind Switzerland’s largest bank, was sent to jail, and was later awarded $104 million by the IRS.
78Dp TIL There have been no fatalities in the United States, due to a major airline crash, since November of 2001.
4WGa TIL: The computer that calculated flight trajectories for first American in space (and many others) was actually a black woman at NASA (at a time of intense racial/gender bias).