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TIL about 'The Cutter Documents' which revealed that in 1980s pharmaceutical companies knowingly sold HIV contaminated blood products to hemophilia patients. It ended up killing many people.

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oZjE TIL there is free University & College courses taught online by professors from world-renown schools. They believe learning should be free.
VMKKk TIL Cats rarely meow at each other, it was rather developed exclusively to communicate with people
R7aV9 TIL the world’s oldest pool of water was found 2 miles down a Canadian mineshaft and dated at ~2 billion years old. By observing the sulphate in the water, researchers were also able to confirm that single-celled organisms had inhabited the pool at some point.
l7xlK TIL that the Nepalese royal family was nearly wiped out in 2001, when Crown Prince Dipendra opened fire during a gathering at the palace
VBEk TIL That the Largest numerical denomination bill ever is 1 Milliard Hungarian Pengő (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) in 1946. It was only worth twenty cents US! Hyper-Inflation is rough.