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TIL American businesses supplied Saddam Hussein with the chemical/biological agents used in the Kurdish Genocide.

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8aQdb TIL that Edward Hines got the idea to paint a line in the middle of the road to seperate traffic after watching a leaky milk wagon leave a trail down the street. In 1935, he was awarded the George S. Bartlett Award for outstanding contribution to highway progress.
epV64 TIL That, shortly after the Berlin Wall fell, Eugene Stoner, inventor of the AR-15, and Mikhail Kalashnikov, inventor of the AK-47, met near Washington DC and developed a friendship that lasted until Stoner's death seven years later.
9YB56 TIL that before Ian Fleming used "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" for his book about a magic car, the original phrase referred to the permission slip soldiers needed to leave the barracks to visit local brothels during WWI.
N7PR6 TIL The extremely rare Chorioactic fungus has a disjunct distribution: it is only found in a few forests in Japan and a few counties in Texas at roughly the same latitude. Its appearance gives it the name 'the Devil's Cigar' and then splits into a star shape as it matures. It is unique to its genus.
dD9dd TIL with average daily consumption of 2.2 liters of Coca-Cola, Chiapas, Mexico leads the world