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TIL pancakes are one of mankind’s oldest prepared foods, and virtually every culture has their own version of them.

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nAPd TIL during the 1980s Bayer knowingly sold HIV contaminated blood to Asia and Latin America. About 20,000 people contracted HIV from the results. Bayer paid approx $50M USD to the victims, which averages $2,500 per individual.
KYX5G TIL the fax machine was invented in 1843
4N4J TIL the retina in your eye is actually considered to be part of the brain
rp7w TIL of the Mongolian death worm, an alleged creature living in the Gobi desert that can grow up to 5 feet long and spew corrosive acid.
Yp9rv TIL of U.S. Patent 3216423: Apparatus for facilitating the birth of a child by centrifugal force, which was intended to facilitate labour by spinning a pregnant mother. The designers believed that "civilised women... often do not have the opportunity to develop the muscles needed in confinement."