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TIL that Bayer knowingly sold HIV tainted blood products to 3rd world hemophiliacs because they decided the financial investment of the product was considered too high to destroy

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JY0VQ TIL that suppressing your emotions is physically unhealthy, greatly increasing your risk of premature death and cancer. So cry, scream, let it out. You'll thank yourself eventually.
o11r TIL Will Smith improvised all the lines in his monologue about his father on Fresh Prince. The emotional ending and the hug was not scripted and he thought the cameras had stopped rolling when he said “How come he don’t want me, man?” His dad had left him as a child.
mxa7x TIL that medieval plague doctors were often times not even doctors at all, but rather second rate physicians hired to simply keep death records, or in one case, a former fruit salesman.
gMRoX TIL the Tet Offensive was probably inspired by the Three Pronged Attacks during the Lam Son Uprising. Le Loi and his generals successfully fought and won three major battles against the Ming which ended the Ming occupation of Vietnam in one swoop.
VMN1B TIL that there are 8 JU-ON movies. We only got 3 "The Grudge" movies in the U.S, but the JU-ON series in Japan has been going on since 1998.