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TIL: British-based firm Reckitt Benckiser admitted in 2016 that it sold a humidifier disinfectant that killed about 100 people in South Korea. They withdrew their product after South Korean authorities suggested a link between chemicals to sterilise humidifiers and lung conditions in 2011.

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l779B TIL of the Wallstreet bombing of 1920 that killed more than 30 people and injuring more than 300. A driver stopped the animal and it's load near the U.S Assay Office in the heart of Wallstreet and disappeared into the crowd. Within Minutes exploded into a hail of metal fragments and remains unsolved
R791l TIL the Judge Dredd series, running since 1977 without retcons, proceeds in real-time; as a year passes, one does in the comic. It is hailed as one of the best satires of American culture with a trend to predict things like mass surveillance, the rise of populism, and aspects of pandemic response.
697W7 TIL that after Zaire, now known as DR Congo, lost all their matches at the 1974 FIFA World Cup, the players were forbidden to leave their home country, so that they couldn't play for European clubs with the offers that came in after the World Cup
Erbw TIL - The highest blood alcohol content ever recorded was .91%, more than twice the typical lethal limit and eleven times more than legally drunk.
mVlE TIL that the total casualties of the USA, Britain and France during WW2 put together, are roughly equal to the casualties of the Soviets in the decisive battle of Leningrad only. In total, Soviet casualties are 26 times that!