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TIL Residents of a Johannesburg town protested microwave towers claiming headaches, nausea, tinnitus, rashes, gastric/sleep issues that subsided after leaving the coverage area. After a meeting with residents the tower’s owners revealed the towers had been switched off more than six weeks earlier.

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6EAEw TIL humans domesticated a mold thousands of years ago (Aspergillus oryzae.) It produces soy sauce, miso, sake, amazake, among other savory things.
5Mer TIL in 1982 drug dealers in California tried to synthesize heroin more cheaply, and accidentally created a substance that gave users late stage Parkinson’s disease in a matter of days.
gMdZy TIL of Canadian musician Jeff Healey, who has been blind since the age of 1 due to retinoblastoma. He began playing guitar at age 3 by setting the guitar on his lap and playing it like a keyboard. His song “Angel Eyes” reached No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1989. He died of cancer in 2008.
R5Dn1 TIL that the disco-pop group Boney M was a project of white German singer and the black guy was hired to lipsync only for marketing reasons.
gMGGA TIL Hall of Fame boxer Julio Cesar Chavez grew up with 10 brothers and sisters in an abandoned railroad car in Culiacan. When he gained fame as a professional fighter, Chavez would fight in exhibitions to raise money for the poor in Mexico, often giving out of his own pocket.