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TIL most of the world's Botox is manufactured in Ireland. A couple of pounds/kilos of the raw botulinum neurotoxin used to make it is enough to kill everyone in the world, multiple times over.

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R5jx9 TIL that the "Killing baby Hitler" is a thought experiment in ethics and theoretical physics which poses the question of using time travel to assassinate an infant Adolf Hitler.
YpooZ TIL that the tobacco industry managed to shift blame of people falling asleep with lit cigarettes away from their products onto beds and sofas being too flammable getting the government to force flame retardants into all sorts of home products that now are linked to cancer etc.
epjn6 TIL Space Invaders was such a huge success by 1982 it had grossed $14 billion adjusted for inflation, it was the highest-grossing entertainment product of all time
4XZbR TIL about teledildonics. It's where you hook up a sex toy to the internet so you can play with friends over great distances.
WkaLX TIL Killer Whales are actually dolphins. They were called Whale Killers by Spanish fishermen but were mistranslated as Killer Whales in English