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TIL that in Victorian Britain, arsenic-laced paint used in wallpaper was so common that doctors warned that “a great deal of slow poisoning is going on,” as toxic pigments turned home décor into a silent killer.

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Wg7X TIL the panama canal turns 100 today
MlEV TIL that until the late 1960s, men with long hair were prohibited from entering Disneyland because it did not meet the standards of Disney’s unwritten dress code. Employees were also prohibited from having any facial hair because visitors would associate it with un-American activities.
be0j TIL that the creator of NBA Jam hated the Chicago Bulls so much that he coded it so that they would miss last second shots against the Detroit Pistons.
d8GO9 TIL that an "acardiac baby" is a severely malformed parasitic twin stealing circulation from the other twin, which can cause extreme stress on the normal fetus resulting in mortality for both twins
w6ZJ TIL that Charles Darwin didn’t refer to evolution (“evolve”) in his book, “Origin of Species”, until the very last sentence so that potentially outraged Christians would either lose interest and stop reading before finding it, or be forced to read the evidence first.