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mxxKo TIL DAT was intended as a replacement for cassette tapes but was never adopted by the recording industry due to concerns over consumers being able to make high-quality tape copies
wok0Y TIL increasing the tax on tobacco products is one of the most effective ways in decreasing tobacco usage.
M7o40 TIL following his death in 68AD, there was a popular conspiracy theory that Roman emperor Nero was still secretly alive
b6n80 TIL of Dr Jack Matthews who was not only a doctor, a top level rugby player and a glider pilot during WW2, but he also fought Rocky Marciano to a draw in amateur boxing.
BrGxb TIL that the dangerous strains of E-Coli Bacteria only came into existence in the early 70s, when, by a freak event of DNA sharing, a E-Coli Bacterium gained the gene to produce kidney and intestine destroying Shiga Toxins from a Shigella Bacterium, the bacteria that causes Dysentery.