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TIL clockwise was called sunwise before the invention of clocks.

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woPRM TIL in 2018, a preschool assistant in Hawaii was fired after mistakenly serving cups of Pin-Sol cleaning fluid to children instead of apple juice.
x617w TIL That the Pan American logo was widely known as "The Blue Meatball".
1aAQX TIL the first firemen to respond to the Chernobyl meltdown stood above the burning core, which emitted radiation at 30,000 roentgen per hour. When they died a few weeks later, their bodies were so radioactive they were buried in coffins made of lead with the lids welded shut.
0wJOM TIL Slavery is not fully abolished in the US as the thirteen amendment provides an exception for people convicted of a crime
rR050 TIL that in 1918 Chicago during the Great Flu Pandemic Julia “Slick Julia” Lyons posed as a home nurse and then robbed them. First she would over-charge them for prescriptions ($63 for a $5 dose of oxygen) and then would flat out steal cash, jewelry, clothing, or any other valuables she could find.