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TIL A South African veterinarian employed by the Apartheid government was engineering for them a virus that selectively sterilized only black people.

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QYVL TIL An estimated 81 percent of people lie during a job interview
MeWVB TIL the anti-diabetic medication,metformin, is derived from French lilacs. In medieval times, French lilac was used to treat the symptoms of a condition we now know today as diabetes mellitus.
5YwdP TIL that in 1920, U.S. Mint employee Orville Harrington stole an estimated $80,000 in gold by methodically hiding the bars in his hollow wooden leg.
DQe9J TIL, in The Blair Witch Project, the reason they never show the witch on camera is that the cameraman forgot to pan to the left
pYnKQ TIL that lawyer Garry Hoy, in an attempt to demonstrate to his students that their office building's windows were unbreakable, threw himself against a window. The glass did not break but the window frame gave way, causing him to fall 24 stories to his death.