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TIL Monsant0 hires internet trolls to cover up Roundup’s cancer risk

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lb1K TIL that prescription bottles are typically orange or light brown because those colors prevent ultraviolet light from degrading the potentially photosensitive contents through photochemical reactions, while still letting enough visible light through for the contents to be easily visible
d8PBE TIL on April 27, 2011, 360 total tornadoes were confirmed to have touched down in 21 states spanning from Texas to New York and southern Canada, killing 348 in total and making it the largest and deadliest tornado outbreaks recorded.
NXLp6 TIL the Sheriff of Nottingham is a real office and still exists today
M7x6m TIL that there exists a Peruvian political movement called Ethnocacerism, an ultranationalist indigenous movement that seeks to restore the borders of the Incan Empire. It was founded by the father of former Peruvian president Ollanta Humala.
BgyXb TIL that after childbirth, the placenta can leave behind a wound the size of a dinner plate inside the mother’s uterus.