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TIL Bayer sold blood-clotting agents in the 80s infected with HIV to Asia and Latin America months after withdrawing them from Europe and the US for this very problem

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GRxj TIL that oranges are not even in the top ten list of common foods when it comes to vitamin C levels.
x68bB TIL about the Beekman Arms, America's oldest continuously operating hotel. Its guests include George Washington, Horace Greeley and William Jennings Bryan. FDR held speeches from the front porch
rN504 TIL that North Korea Has a Space Program that has put 2 Satellites into Orbit and plans on going To the moon By 2026 and Mars
0wYBy TIL about hyperparasitism, where a parasitic species is itself parasitised by another parasite. Up to three levels of parasitism have been identified - specifically a fungus on a fungus on a fungus on a tree
D1APr TIL about Apophis (Egyptian god of death and darkness), an asteroid that will pass earth closer than our own satellites orbit on Friday 13th, 2029. It will touch our atmosphere, and we will be able to see it wiz overhead. There is a debated chance of it impacting Earth when it returns in 2036.