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TIL in 1881 Listerine mouthwash distributor agreed to pay royalties to it's inventor and still pays his family, for some 141 years for now

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Gm7j TIL that Sean Baker, a Military Policeman at Guantanamo Bay, was ordered to impersonate a prisoner in a secret training mission for US Soldiers to practice extracting uncooperative inmates from their cells. He was beaten so hard he suffered from major seizures caused by traumatic brain injury.
GYPPg TIL Even already in 2018, Ukraine had to spend 5 - 7 % of its national budget on recovery activities related to the Chernobyl disaster
xNV0 TIL that Westervill, OH, was dry for over 70 years, serving its first legal beer in 2006
JY5mk TIL in the days following the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Ronald Reagan called the killing "a great tragedy that began when we began compromising with law and order and people started choosing which laws they'd break."
6OPY TIL Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator of Hamilton, wrote an entire song in the Huttese language from Star Wars. It was the song that played in Maz’s Kantina in The Force Awakens.