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TIL that Monsanto created Agent Orange, which caused over half a million Vietnamese children to be born with deformities.

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Kg9J TIL Jesse Jackson Jr. used campaign funds illegally to purchase, among other things, capes. Cashmere capes.
BrERb TIL because ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ was filmed on a microscopic budget of $60,000, the cast and crew had to work 7 days a week, 12-16 hours a day in 115°F heat in a poorly ventilated farmhouse amid rotting roadkill being used as props to finish the film.
WLPY TIL Sergey Titov (producer of The War Z) produced one of the worst video games of all-time
ZLXR TIL pay toilets are virtually unknown in America thanks to a nineteen year-old.
vPLo4 TIL the U.S. Detonated an Underground Nuclear Bomb in Mississippi in 1964.