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TIL After Breaking Bad, many meth manufacturers in real life dyed their product blue.

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W7XAB TIL Japan during the 60s and into the late 80s was using a coagulant catalyst to treat hemophilia called Fibrinogen Concentrate by pooling plasma from donors. However, due to under-regulation, donors were not screened for diseases like Hepatitis, which resulted in thousands infected
QNLLk TIL Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan had a falling out on the set of "A Night at the Roxbury" and have only spoken to each other once since.
a8kxL TIL In 1914 astronomers at the Royal Observatory made a careful study of the transit of Mercury in order to determine whether Mercury had any moons and essentially proved that the planet has no moon
QJwBd TIL weathervanes point to where the wind is coming FROM, not the direction it’s blowing.
awEOL TIL about the Mandaeans, and ethno-religious group native to southern Mesopotamia. They were likely the first to practice baptism, and are the only surviving Gnostics from antiquity.