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TIL on Wall Street at noon in 1920 a horse drawn carriage loaded with explosive went off killing 38 people and injuring hundreds. Never solved it was expected to have been Italian Anarchists

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pkoO TIL of Radithor, a health drink in the 1920s that contained radium and slowly killed its customers. But it didn’t cause a public health crisis because it could only be afforded by rich people (unlike cheaper, safer knockoffs)
QBRe TIL Nearly half the gold ever mined has come from one place: Witwatersrand, South Africa.
oYbW TIL Helena Bonham Carter’s maternal grandfather saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust during World War II
D1lme TIL the oldest mathematical artifact in the world is the Lebombo bone, found in the mountains of Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), Africa. The bone was likely used as a measurement device and to keep track of lunar cycles, suggesting that the first mathematicians might have been African women.
a8W9N TIL Most newborns cry for 45 minutes to two hours every day during the first six months of life because crying is the only way they communicate