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TIL: About the Chicago Tylenol Murders where 7 people died from taking Tylenol laced with cyanide. This led to the creation of safety seals and tamper proof packaging on over the counter medication.

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nWmOr TIL that the first airplane ticket ever sold was bought by a reporter named Albert Beach in 1908 for a flight from St. Petersburg to Tampa, Florida. The ticket cost $400, which is equivalent to around $11,000 in today's currency.
GbMG TIL the Great Sphinx was so named about 2000 years after its construction. What name the creators called their statue is unknown and there are no inscriptions anywhere describing its construction or original purpose.
D0DY TIL there is a type of video photography that makes real life look like highly detailed miniatures. It’s called Tilt-Shift Photography, and it looks uncanny.
d8gNK TIL that under the Subversive Activities Registration Act, South Carolina law requires that groups who intend to overthrow the government to register their details with the authorities and pay $5 .
QNyV6 TIL singer-songwriter Jewel had a relationship with actor Sean Penn. He sought her out with a phone call to her father's home in Alaska after watching her television debut on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" in 1995. Jewel's father assumed it was a prank call.