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TIL Canada has the worst human rights record in terms of mining companies operating overseas.

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1aZaX TIL Dutch female resistance girls executed Nazis after seducing them in bars
E1pJP TIL that in the 1960s, over 320,000 baby teeth were sent by parents to be tested for radioactive isotope strontium-90. They showed that children born after large scale nuclear testing had begun showed levels 50 times higher than children born before large scale testing.
kOOYW TIL Thomas Edison's literal last breath is held in a vial at the Henry Ford Museum.
a84gM TIL Oppenheimer attempted to poison his tutor with cyanide
yQOgw TIL of Clive Wearing, who is incapable of forming new memories, and thus every 20 to 30 seconds has the experience of waking from a coma. He keeps a diary, and page after page is filled with some variation of the same text: "Now I am awake."