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TIL every stegosaurus toy is probably female

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WGkd TIL that Benjamin Franklin had an illegitimate son who remained loyal to the British and fled to London after the war. He stayed there for the rest of his life.
LQL0 TIL nearly 100,000 hemophiliacs around the world were given blood products contaminated with hepatitis C or HIV. Bayer, Baxter and the other companies involved knew the products were contaminated but distributed them anyway. The FDA hushed up the matter and no executives have ever been investigated.
JBZm TIL The first bitcoin transaction ever made was 10,000BTC for a pizza, which is now worth approx $470,000USD
XE89j TIL According to the convention of Geneva an ejected pilot in the air is not a combatant and therefore attacking him is a war crime.