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TIL In 1984, OSHA fined a company $640, after a rocket motor fell on an employee and crushed him against the securing beams.

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b9gB9 TIL that groundbreaking new cancer therapies ramp up the body's own immune system to eradicate cancer cells. One promising immunotherapy method, known as CAR T, has shown incredible success in clinical trials with children when most other options have failed.
kJYDe TIL In the 1980s, an obscene image was snuck into one of the ice cubes in a Coca-Cola ad in South Australia. The company recalled and destroyed all of the posters, and the artist responsible for the image was fired and sued.
LaeQ TIL America’s first female mayor was elected in 1887. A group of men nominated her as a joke intended to humiliate women, but instead she won over 60% of the vote.
QNkOe TIL of the Mathematical Bridge in Cambridge, which is the subject of an urban legend claiming that it was designed by Isaac Newton using no nuts or bolts.
b96j7 TIL in 2015 James McElvar, a Scotsman, decided to wear all the clothes from his bag (12 layers of clothing!) during a flight to avoid taking the bag and paying a £45 baggage fee. He fell ill during the flight; paramedics said he was "lucky to be alive".