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TIL that ‘Salt made from Human Tears’ is available to buy .

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wLwo7 TIL Half of European men share King Tut’s DNA
VRRD TIL The Lakota People have been trying to claim independence in the longest legal battle in history (more than 160 years) with the United States
69Pm7 TIL of the 1862 Nueces Massacre in Texas, when 96 Confederate soldiers killed 37 German-Texan Unionists who were attempting to flee to Mexico, and slaughtering 9 Germans who were badly wounded in the fight, marking the end to overt German Unionist resistance in Texas for the remainder of the war.
69NkZ TIL Johnson & Johnson lost thousands of lawsuits costing billions in damages over their talcum-based baby powder, and then created a subsidiary to dump on that liability onto before declaring the subsidiary went bankrupt, shielding them from the lawsuit claims
R75lw National Geographic Fellow Jer Thorp explains the process behind designing "We Were Once Strangers Too," an award-winning public data sculpture that highlighted the role of immigrants in New York City.