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TIL there’s a company that invented the retractable syringe to prevent AIDS and offers to sell it at a equal price to consumers. Yet they’re over shadowed by a billion dollar company “BD”.

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O8p1 TIL that in 2003, American soldiers in Iraq vandalized the 6,000 year old Sumerian city of Ur by spraypainting “Semper Fe” on its walls. No response was made by the US government to the allegations.
D1okD TIL in 1918 the SS Princess Sophia became grounded on Alaska's Vanderbilt Reef. Worsening weather ruled out any chance of a rescue. Two days later she sank with the loss of all 364 people on board. A dog was the only survivor.
D1E4r TIL In the 1960's, a gun fired bullets that had tiny little rockets inside to give no recoil and high stability. Today, they cost around $100 per round.
O8Qg TIL to deter slaves from committing suicide by jumping overboard, the captain of a slave ship lowered a slave into the water with a rope then instantly pulled her out. Sharks had torn off the lower part of her body.
gNQb TIL elephants are afraid of bees!