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TIL "may you live in interesting times" is not a Chinese curse

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nemZG TIL that Cutter (a division of Bayer) knowingly sold blood tainted with the HIV virus to Taiwan, Malaysia, Argentina, China, and other "less developed countries", effectively infecting thousands of hemophiliacs with HIV.
9Y6D TIL that there is a book sequel to Forrest Gump in which Forrest helps develop New Coke, crashes the Exxon Valdez, helps destroy the Berlin Wall, meets Tom Hanks, and fights in Operation Desert Storm with an orangutan named Sue
D18AV TIL that the Philippines built a nuclear power plant and then never used it
ZpDeQ TIL that Venus flytraps are native to North Carolina
a845M TIL sci-fi author Issac Asimov contracted HIV in 1983 through a blood transfusion.