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TIL: Due to the optium tooth medicine you ca. Reconstruct Lewis and Clark's Journey by following the Mercury-laden laxative Latrine Pits

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l7YE5 TIL about the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami that killed an estimated 224,000 people. It is not even not even in the top 10 for deadliest natural disasters in history.
yOme TIL during Prohibition, the U.S. government poisoned alcohol, killing as many as 10,000 people
m1jbY TIL in 1987, New York Yankee Don Mattingly set a major league record for grand slams in a season hitting 6. He didn't hit a single grand slam in any of his other 13 seasons.
Kp6a TIL: Special K is banned in Denmark for being fortified with “toxic” doses of nutrients
nEO9 TIL that 69% of Luxembourgers and 53% of Belgians speak “at least” four languages