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TIL: In the 80’s an Indian factory leaked toxic gas which floated to the nearby slums and killed thousands.

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wL7D7 TIL about the book 'Comfort women of the Empire', by a korean historian who was the first to interview the Korean comfort women for the japanese army.
vPYZ7 TIL about William English Walling, wealthy grandson of the 1880 Democratic vice presidential candidate who became a trade union socialist and co-founded the NAACP with W.E.B. Du Bois
n7kY TIL John Harrison, the official taste-tester for Dreyer’s Ice Cream, has his tongue insured for $1,000,000.
P1X0V TIL there exists the Clowns Egg Register in London, an archive of the make-up styles for clowns, in which the clowns' face paint is painted onto eggs. Established in 1946, the register originally used hens' eggs but has since switched to ceramic eggs.
6nvQ TIL that John Argyropoulos, a humanist scholar who escaped the fall of Constantinople and tutored Lorenzo D'Medici died of consuming too much watermelon.