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TIL the first chemotherapy drug was derived from mustard gas

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R71NQ TIL Israel and the United States withdrew membership from UNESCO in 2018, claiming that the organization had an anti-Israel bias.
woXw1 TIL Sioux Lookout was once home to the second busiest airport in North America behind Chicago.
loGY5 TIL that Liechtenstein & Uzbekistan are the only two double landlocked countries in the world. A country is "doubly landlocked" or "double-landlocked" when it is surrounded only by landlocked countries (requiring the crossing of at least two national borders to reach a coastline)
ZDlQ TIL that several times in the Batman series, the Joker has become temporarily sane. In these brief moments, he has expressed extreme regret for his actions (Also he has killed over 2,000 people)
rNrxW TIL: that of the three department stores “Wanamaker's, Saks,and Klein's” referenced in the hit 1950’s musical Guys and Dolls only Saks remains