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TIL that the childhood epidemic of asthma may be caused by the switch to Tylenol in the 1980s

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Z8p8v TIL that 47 years ago an an estimated 500,000 people were killed in one night when tropical cyclone Bhola hit the densely populatedGanges Delta region of East Pakistan.
BrrVk TIL that there's a power station hidden inside a mountain in Scotland.
9jd6 TIL that the face on almost every cpr doll in existence is modeled after an unidentified woman who’s dead body was found in the seine river in france during the late 1880s.
R5LAa TIL Because tungsten and gold have almost identical weights, fake gold bars and coins made from tungsten cannot be identified by the usual method of density testing, and ultrasound has to be used instead.
9wOMD TIL There is a kind of kite that work underwater, call tidal kites. In fact it is high-tech tidal turbines, generating electricity from the power of the ocean.