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TIL that the Chicagoland Tylenol murders still remain unsolved and no one was ever charged. In 1982, 7 people were murdered via cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules; leading to industry-wide tamper-proof seals and phasing out of capsules.

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RO17 TIL Judge Alex Kozinski dismissed Mattel’s lawsuit over the song “Barbie Girl” with the line “The parties are advised to chill.”
OEjR TIL in the 1860’s, a slave from South Carolina stole a ship from the Confederacy and delivered it to the Union. He was later gifted the ship to command during the Civil War. After the war was over, he bought the house he was a slave in and became a US Congressman.
N7obQ TIL Scientists track solar cycles by counting sunspots. A high-powered telescope might show 10 or 20 and a powerful observatory may see 50 to 100, so there is a formula for the official sunspot number, R=k (10g+s)
epVVn TIL the Calusa built fish holding pens 7x larger than an NBA basketball court in what is now Florida, requiring understanding of daily and seasonal tides, hydrology and fish biology in 1300 CE to cope with sea level changes
P1eMG TIL that one of the major factors that made Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, as the choice for piloting Vostok 6 in June 1963, was that she proved lucky in the timing of her menstrual cycles earlier that month.