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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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Y7ZbB TIL that the youngest person to be observed to suffer from alcohol withdrawal & delirium tremens was 9yrs old.
rNGAd TIL Project A119, a top-secret plan developed in 1958 by the United States Air Force, the aim of which was to detonate a nuclear bomb on the Moon as a show of force to the USSR. A young Carl Sagan worked on the project.
8aalX TIL that physicist Richard Feynman encouraged his sister Joan to study the universe, despite their mother's belief that women were incapable of fully understanding science. Joan went on to become an astrophysicist.
vr6D TIL that the song “Die Eier Von Satan (The Balls of Satan)” by Tool when translated from German to English is actually a recipe for cooking eggless cookies.
rRKge TIL before the landing of Apollo 14, its landing radar failed to function. Astronauts fixed the problem by turning it off and on again.