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TIL that the CSI:Crime Scene Investigation franchise put out a kit for kids that contained asbestos in the fingerprinting powder. Lead, arsenic, and other toxic chemicals were also found in some kits.

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l7Mr TIL a scumbag is a used condom
M7YwB TIL that Hitler ensured the safety of his Jewish family doctor Eduard Bloch (who treated Hitler's mother for breast cancer at reduced cost). He was allowed to emigrate to the US in 1940.
nejQB TIL When Will Lee, who played Mr. Hooper on Sesame Street, died in 1982, the show had an episode where Mr. Hooper died. The writers extensively researched how to teach young kids about death. The episode aired on Thanksgiving 1983 so parents were home to discuss it with their kids. It never reran.
5YxEQ TIL Charles Dickens once jumped in through the window of his wife-to-be's home dressed in a sailor suit, did a jig whilst playing the hornpipe, jumped back out the window again and re-entered the room as if nothing had happened.
KOv4R TIL of gyandromorphism: an occurence in nature in which an organism has both male and female characteristics in one body; sometimes surfacing as male on one half of the body and female on the other.