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TIL: Oral ingestion of Visine warrants immediate medical attention or a call to a poison control center

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X18D TIL that the NFL requires football fields to be built either facing north/south or in the shade so the sun doesn’t interfere with play.
GAQrG TIL that St Louis Bread Co and Panera were the same thing. Apparently since it was originally named STL Bread Co and they kept the name in our area when it changed to keep old customers. Went to a Panera in Illinois today and i went to a Panera. Took me a whole 17 years to realize lol
OGxW1 TIL in July 1969, US Senator Ted Kennedy crashed his car into the sea after a party and left the scene, leaving Mary Jo Kopechne to drown, a young woman that could have been saved if help had been called that night.
OoDNX TIL In 1959, police were called to a segregated library in S. Carolina when a 9yr-old Black boy refused to leave. He later got a PhD in Physics from MIT, and died in 1986, one of the astronauts aboard the space shuttle Challenger. The library that refused to lend him books is now named after him.
aR6N TIL that in 1968, a group of students at McGill University publicly violated the law to publish a text providing critical information about sexual health. The resulting book, called The Birth Control Handbook, sold millions of copies.