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TIL about Towns Beach MO, a town of 2000 that was evacuated and shut down in 1983 due to dioxin contamination

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LQ16P TIL Dr. William Halstead, who is considered the father of modern surgery due to his research in multiple surgical fields such as antisepsis to prevent infection, developed addictions to both cocaine and morphine during his career, due to experimenting with the drugs' numbing abilities on himself
6bXl TIL in the fiscal year of 2014, the DEA spent an average of $4.20 per marijuana plant they uprooted.
awlp9 TIL in 2013 a large Egyptian statue at Manchester Museum in the UK was found to be mysteriously turning round gradually of its own accord - the phenomenon was even caught on video. The cause turned out to be vibrations from nearby roadworks.
y1Zp TIL that many records in track and field including the long jump and high jump are unlikely to be broken due to modern athletes gravitating towards higher money sports such as sprinting or football.
Lkon0 TIL the CIA actively helped Indonesian dictator Suharto massacre an estimated 1 million suspected Communist Party sympathizers in 1965, providing training, mass media suppression, and lists of individuals whom they later acknowledged as being innocent.