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TIL of a tiger who terrorized rural villages in Asia and is estimated to have killed 436 people

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6E648 TIL Nickelodeon, a children's television channel, used to run an ad during the mid 2000s warning about the dangers of hidden sugars and how to correctly identify them.
A1Xw TIL In 2005, a German court upheld the right of citizens to flirt at work in response to Wal-Mart Germany’s policy banning any sign of attraction b/w its workers. The court said that such regulations may be acceptable in the US, they are incompatible w/ German labor law & employees’ personal rights.
kOd5W TIL that organ donation is on an opt-out basis in Singapore. Citizens who opt-out have a lower priority of receiving an organ should they need one.
woPA8 TIL a crystallographer named Yuri Struchkov authored or coauthored 948 scientific papers between 1981-1990, which equates to 1 paper every 3.9 days. In 1992, he won the Ig Nobel prize in literature for his prodigious contributions to the field.
BrGrk TIL that pure asbestos was used as fake snow in the Wizard of Oz. Here it is raining down on Dorothy, the Scarecrow and the Cowardly Lion.