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TIL that loneliness can kill you!

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8KDZ TIL in 1915, San Diego hired a “rain maker” who used a secret mix of chemicals to “attract rain” for $10,000, payable if he filled their reservoir. It rained for most of January, destroying bridges, dams, and causing 20 deaths.
eZO5 TIL that there is a cure for Hepatitis C that costs $1,125 per pill.
JYkym TIL because France prohibits alcohol sponsorship of sport, the Guinness Six Nations rugby championship is branded there as 'Six Nations Greatness'
ggry TIL Honey bees that return to the hive drunk are punished. The punishment ranges from leg biting to complete leg loss, for repeat offenders.
9YZd6 TIL A Czech nuclear power plant held a bikini contest to choose new interns, sidestepping the normal way of vetting candidates by going off of their knowledge of nuclear physics.