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TIL: Agent Orange was produced by Uniroyal Canada in Elmira, Ont., a small farming community just outside Waterloo.

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ZpGlQ TIL Tsukuba Syndrome, a phenomenon where researchers in Tsukuba Science City, a research hub northeast of Tokyo, committed suicide in the 1970s-80s. The suicide rate was more than twice that of the general population. In late 1985, three people from the same lab took their lives within a month.
p8OBe TIL that in 1948, the overpopulation of beavers were causing problems in Idaho, so they dropped 76 beavers out of airplanes with parachutes to try to relocate the populations.
dYyE TIL Deer poses the most danger to humans out of all mammals living in North America
wYy8 TIL NASA seriously thinks it can build a warp drive soon, now that the physicists have worked out the math. Here’s hoping.
gM7yb Today I learned that a German company sold radioactive toothpaste containing thorium until the US nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Source in German)