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TIL Listerine was first sold as a floor cleaner and a cure for gonorrhea

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90mm TIL a Popular German TV science show introduced “German-Only” seats on public buses and hired actor to act as racist. 80% of passengers confronted them, especially women and people who were old enough to witness the Third Reich stood up for the immigrants.
JrxB TIL pilots have to wait 6 hours after taking Viagra to fly because it can affect blue/green colour differentiation, interfering with their ability to interpret cockpit instruments and runway lights.
Lpnd TIL in Spain, it is tradition for hunters to kill their Spanish Greyhound hunting dogs at the end of the hunting season. Young healthy dogs are hung, shot, maimed and/or strangled and left to die.
0YBA TIL that Comcast has won the “Worst Company in America” award twice, first in 2010 and second in 2014.
kO9J4 TIL the last known win at chess by a human against a top performing computer under normal tournament conditions was in 2005