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TIL That there are 2 chemically different kind of tears

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J1MAQ TIL about Janet Parker, the last person to die of smallpox in 1978. She worked above one of the last labs in its last months of permission to study the virus. The day Janet's viral strain was confirmed, Henry Bedson, the doctor in charge of the lab, took his own life.
X0o9P TIL a 1990s April Fools prank at Microsoft nearly got the pranksters fired when they printed up hundreds of fake product boxes and snuck them into software stores -- Microsoft Coffee
pYBGQ TIL that the rock climbing community has an agreed-upon difficulty scale they use to classify climbing routes. The highest difficulty level, 9C, has only been awarded to one route, named Silence, in central Norway. It was successfully climbed for the first and only time to date in 2018.
b8RQ TIL in 1970, a state commission in Mississippi voted to ban Sesame Street because of its “highly integrated cast of children”.
D1wRY TIL that only two women have ever attempted to assassinate a US President, and both attempts were made on Gerald R. Ford within 3 weeks of each other.