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

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neAoG TIL that in 1403, at the Battle of Shrewsbury when future King Henry V of England was 16 he was shot in the face by an arrow. The royal physician, while using honey as an antiseptic, crafted a specially designed tool to successfully extract the embedded arrowhead without doing any further damage.
X0YAD TIL "Barney & Friends" creator Sheryl Leach's son, Patrick, who inspired her to create Barney, is currently serving a 15-year prison sentence for shooting his neighbor.
6EMLX TIL The world’s most expensive coffee is from beans cycled through an Indonesian monkey’s digestive system.
9wnaB TIL the UK passport office declined to issue a 6-yr-old British girl a passport because the child's name Khaleesi was under WB trademark. After the story was reported on & it was determined that a birth name cannot be trademarked & that trademarks are for goods & services, the decision was reversed.
jNG4j TIL The US Navy uses dolphins to help it defend the world's largest stock pile of nuclear weapons at naval Base Kitsap.