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TIL Bayer sold millions of $ of blood-clotting medicine for hemophiliacs with a high risk of transmitting AIDS to Asia & Latin America in the mid-80s, while selling safer product in the West.

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N7rK8 TIL Canada's nuclear reactors (CANDU) are designed to use decommissioned nuclear weapons as fuel and can be refueled while running at full power. They're considered among the safest and the most cost effective reactors in the world.
xV4Y0 TIL: Herbert Hoover, 31st president of the United States, once worked as a gold mining geologist/engineer in the Australian Outback, in the 1890s
Ook0e TIL that, in 1379, a baby from Yorkshire was named Diot Coke.
N1YE TIL in 1996 Fox tried to place a computerized blue halo around the pucks in hockey games to make them more visible. That technology later evolved into the yellow first down line in football.
4kExo TIL Some dialects of English use the adverb anymore in an affirmative context