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TIL when it was discovered that individual letters of early Gutenberg Bibles were identical in appearance, a Bible salesman was accused of witchcraft — the red ink text was said to have been written in blood — and thrown in jail.

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a80E9 TIL In the country of Georgia you can undergo treatment for bacterial diseases using viruses called Bacteriophages, which have shown potential as a solution to antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
xVg9b TIL that while filming There Will Be Blood, the director Paul Thomas Anderson tested the pyrotechnical effects of an oil fire, causing an enormous amount of smoke to intrude on the nearby set of No Country For Old Men, filming of No Country For Old men had to be delayed for a day because of this.
e0NBJ TIL: that the oil company Shell was started by a man called Samuel Samuel
GZX7 TIL that every medicine certified by the FDA must be tested using horseshoe crab blood.
wRLJ TIL that IRS scammers have been known to call in a violent emergency to the victim’s residence, which triggers a SWAT team response. This activity, called “Swatting,” is why one should simply terminate a call with scammers instead of escalating.