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TIL Iceland was officially treated by UK as a terrorist country in 2008.

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ANmD4 TIL Ancient Egyptians created hundreds of thousands of vessels out of stone, from the predynastic period onward. At the start of the Old Kingdom focus shifted away from stone vessels towards other stone-based displays such as pyramids, statues and sarcophagi.
loNx1 TIL the first virus discovered is the Tobacco mosaic virus, over 100 years ago. It causes a mosaic looking disease in tobacco plants; it can survive for years in cigars and cigarettes made from infected leaves. Wendell Stanley won the Nobel Prize in 1946 for discovering that it's made from protein.
W7YA8 TIL After the assassinations of his brothers President John F Kennedy and Senator Robert Kennedy; Senator Ted Kennedy lived the rest of his life in fear of being assassinated as well and would jump at loud noises and dive for cover at the sound of a car backfiring.
neVJ9 TIL tha Bayer sold HIV and Hepatitis C contaminated blood products which caused up to 10,000 people in the U.S. alone to contract HIV. They pulled it off the U.S. market, but sold it to countries in Asia and Latin America so they could still make money
a8PA9 TIL In 1945 when the representative for Canada was signing the Instrument of Surrender document for Imperial Japan, he signed on the wrong line. The next several countries had to sign below where they were supposed to.