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TIL Scrooge McDuck was the first image to ever be displayed on a Macintosh

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KYQdw Today I learned that Rogaine is fatally toxic to pets, even after it has dried (I’m a vet tech and experienced a sad case this week)
YbrP TIL that penicillin was formally discovered when Alexander Fleming did not tidy up some petri dishes filled with bacteria before going on vacation. A penicillin spore then spontaneously landed in a petri dish and caused enough damage to the bacteria for Fleming to notice this when he came back.
XvNr TIL the number people are most likely to state when asked to give a random number between 0 and 100 is 37.
dlx8 TIL that Gibralter overwhelmingly voted out to not be a Spanish sovereignty twice.
b1oQ TIL in 2015, FBI hair examiners knowingly gave erroneous testimony; they overstated results to benefit the prosecution in 95% of cases over previous 20 years.