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TIL due to a pharmaceutical labeling error, a woman received severe chemical burns over 80% of her vagina during a routine medical procedure. By way of compensation, the pharmacy that made the error sent her an apology and a $50 gasoline gift card. The woman did not have a car.

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awWJo TIL about Tusla's "Black Wall Street" It was the wealthiest Black community in America at the time before being attacked by an angry white mob which killed hundreds of Black residents and destroyed 35 city blocks. It has been called "the single worst incident of racial violence in American history
nWx8B TIL of the Bayside Canadian Railway, a 200-foot-long railroad to nowhere in New Brunswick, Canada. Due to a loophole in the Jones Act, cargo between American ports is permitted to be shipped on foreign-built vessels if at some point it also uses a Canadian railroad.
Xe68 TIL Lobsters can live to be 140 years old!
oB8KR TIL the first dentist who used a common organic solvent we now call "ether" as an anesthetic, William Morton, was castigated by the 18th-century medical community when he tried to patent it/profit from it.
Njve TIL that A.C.Gilbert’s science based toys were so popular that he was called ‘the man who saved christmas’ by the papers.For a year, his company sold a kids 'atomic energy lab’ complete with Geiger counter, mini cloud chamber, and samples of several radioactive elements.