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TIL in 1983, a small town in Missouri was permanently evacuated after high levels of dioxin was discovered in soil samples. It was discovered that a man hired to oil the dirt roads to keep dust down had used waste from a company making Agent Orange.

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wLRRJ TIL In French Polynesia, there are two islands separated by a bridge called Huahine Nui and Huahine Iti. This roughly translates to "Big Vagina" and "Little Vagina".
XEdWj TIL about the Sony BMG rookit which infected millions of computers. Sony BMG initially denied that the software was harmful, but it couldn't easily be uninstalled, and created vulnerabilities that were exploited by unrelated malware.
VM8J8 TIL: The chemical that makes your pee smell funny after eating asparagus is the same chemical thats added to natural gas to give it that signature stench. Its called mercaptan.
GYe71 TIL that although Balto is famously accredited for the 1925 Alaskan serum run, it was actually another Siberian Husky named Togo that lead the most perilous leg of the relay. Togo ran over 300 miles while the other relay sled teams, including Balto, averaged around 31 miles.
JYD1Q TIL about Americana, Brazil; a city founded by 10,000 Confederate ex-patriots at the conclusion of the American Civil War so that they could continue the practice of slavery, which was still legal in Brazil at the time.