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

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mxPpo TIL One teaspoon of neutron star equals the weight of around 900 Pyramids of Giza.
djbZ TIL that a Japanese construction company completed designs for a 2.5 Mile high skyscraper that can house upto 1 million people, just for some recognition.
PpgJ TIL in 1995, current US House Speaker John Boehner was caught handing out checks from the tobacco lobby on the floor of the House of Representatives just before a vote on cutting tobacco subsidies.
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