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TIL the biohazard symbol didn't symbolize or refer to anything originally. It's simply a shape that was picked as being symmetrical, hard to mistake, and easy to remember

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J1KOj TIL that Egyptian builders such as those of the pyramids were usually not slaves, and frequently took sick days from work. Popular excuses included “stung by scorpion”, “bleeding wife”, “trouble with eye”, and even “brewing beer”.
YpEZP TIL that the American Red Cross has updated their rules about who can donate blood, now allowing MSM, women who have sex with MSM, and former IV drug users to donate when they had been banned in the past.
Z8LAD TIL that sometimes it actually pays to read the Terms & Conditions. Some companies give out prizes for reading them. (And some even claim your soul if you don't...)
4B76 TIL Gandhi believed that German Jews should have committed collective suicide
1GP4 TIL PETA made a parody game of Super Meat Boy, called Tofu Boy, and spent over $100,000 to do so; three times the budget of the original.