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TIL if it stood alone as a country, the Great Lakes economy would be one of the largest economic units on earth (with a $4.5-trillion gross regional product).

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8aJVV TIL A Cincinnati hospital paid Neil Armstrong's family $6 million in a wrongful-death settlement after the astronaut and Apollo moonwalker died due to complications following a cardiovascular procedure. His sons have asserted that medical malpractice led to his death
JYWRB TIL that Russia has an extremely long and sophisticated history of secret biological weapons development, including using such weapons.
J1NKj TIL there is a group called The Unicode Consortium. It's most well known for approving emoji designs. Its primary purpose is to maintain and publish the Unicode Standard which keeps code and text standardized across platforms.
e0wnL TIL that the inventor of Vaseline believed in the medicinal properties of the product he ate a spoonful of it everyday. He lived to be 96.
Pdyw TIL: “Plain, unflavored, unsweetened yogurt is the only safe food to put inside the vagina and the anus.”