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TIL Bayer used slave labor and tested drugs on prisoners in Auschwitz

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eb66 TIL of a french scientist who accidentally killed 45% of the rabbits in europe because he was tired of rabbits eating his garden.
d8dXQ TIL about Giant Hogweed a plant whose sap can cause your skin to become hypersensitive to UV light which can result in 3rd Degree burns from sunlight.
oBL1A TIL: That most of the fake snow used in the 1980 Movie "The Shining" was repurposed from the ice planet Hoth scenes in "The Empire Strikes Back".
pYBmp TIL that the homeownership rate is the proportion of households occupied by the owner divided by the total number of occupied households, so it does not actually reflect the % of human beings that rent - say you have 5 room mates. You only count as 1 "renter", the way the data usually presented
PYLog TIL that Indonesia created manta ray sanctuaries upon realising each manta ray brings lifetime tourism income of $1 million.