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TIL that the only actual case of poisoned Halloween candy occurred in 1974 when a father killed his son with a cyanide-laced Pixy Stick so he could collect life insurance.

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dDYE7 TIL an embryo conceived in 1992 was thawed and resulted in the successful birth of twins 30 years later
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7M1b TIL in 1998 a 16 year old British boy obsessed with smelling nice died from using too much deodorant.
ne6no TIL that a cat co-authored a physics paper in 1975
mxdjo TIL the city of Portland, OR once drained a 38 million gallon reservoir because a man peed in it.