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TIL in WW2 US tried to weaponize botulinum. Chinese prostitutes would receive capsules to kill Japanese officers who hired them. The plan was tested on donkeys, who survived so it was scrapped. That research led to the creation of Botox It was later discovered donkeys are immune to botulinum toxin.

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erpJ TIL France has many 49 employee companies because of a 3200 page rule book that places more obligations and rules towards companies having 50 or more employees. Rules like creating three worker councils, profit sharing, restructure plans if they wanted to fire an employee.
d8e7B TIL of Rhythm O, a work by performance artist Marina Abramovic. An audience was invited to do to her what they wished with any of 72 objects, including a loaded gun, as she stood passive for six hours. She was cut with razors and assaulted. The audience fled when she became 'active' again.
8QZa TIL that because of the number of low-hanging power lines in San Francisco, the city’s fire department still uses handmade wooden ladders, made by on-staff master ladder makers.
ndyd TIL Before Becoming President, Franklin Roosevelt Was Rebuked By Congress For Overseeing the Creation of a Gay Teenage Prostitution Ring in the Navy. It didn’t hurt his Presidential Run Because Press Thought it Was Too Indecent to Report.
epjWk TIL The Smoot-Hawley Act raised tariffs to the second highest in U.S. History in 1930, prompting retaliatory tariffs by other countries. causing exports and imports to decline by 2/3. Economists and economic historians have agreed that the Act worsened the Great Depression.