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TIL Gotham City is canonically located in New Jersey
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TIL: Gerhard Schrader created Preparation 9/91, an insecticide, for his employers. However, it was too effective and killed users leading to his employers to say he failed. The, however, impressed the Third Reich and he was hired for $20,000 to develop it into Sarin gas as modern poisons took hours.
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TIL that water tasting is actually a profession and they are called water sommeliers
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TIL the Japanese sportswear company ASICS is an acronym of the latin phrase "anima sana in corpore sano", which translates to "a healthy soul in a healthy body"
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TIL that in 1986, nurse Sandra Clarke could not stay with a patient who asked her to stay. When she returned, the patient had died alone. In 2001, she was key in starting No One Dies Alone, a program where volunteers sit with terminal patients who have no one else. The program is now world-wide.
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TIL in 2008, James “Angry Video Game Nerd” Rolfe, who works with Gametrailers.com, which is owned by Viacom, had his YouTube channel temporarily taken down due to his videos matching content owned by Viacom. The content ID match was to his own videos.