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TIL there is an entire website dedicated to convincing people that dihydrogen monoxide (water) is a dangerous chemical being covered up by the government.

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erOD TIL Elon Musk called Apple a ‘graveyard’ for fired Tesla staff stating: “If you don’t make it at Tesla, you go work at Apple. I’m not kidding.”
7dKp TIL While president of the Screen Actor’s Guild, Ronald Reagan gave the names of supposed communist sympathizers in Hollywood to the FBI
kbMe TIL a woman named Jean Hilliard survived a severe 6 hours freezing. She was transported to Hospital where doctors said her skin was too hard to pierce with a hypodermic needle and her body temperature was too low to register on a thermometer.
LN79 TIL Kim Sa-rang, a 3-month-old Korean child, died from malnutrition after both her parents spent hours each day raising a virtual child on an online game, Prius Online.
QJLPp TIL in 1974, the British Army took over Heathrow Airport. Although it was publicly said to be practice against an IRA plot, PM Wilson and the government had no knowledge of the exercise. It was later revealed that the British Army was planning a coup, and it was a trial run.