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TIL Asbestos was never fully banned in the United States.

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698Yl TIL a young woman's head swelled from her usual measurement of 22 inches to 24.8 inches (and the shape of her face changed) after she used hair dye. This was because the hair dye had a chemical in it called PPD (paraphenylenediamine), which can cause serious allergic reactions in certain people.
xVJ1B TIL SpaceX launched the remains of 152 people to space with a company called Celestis. That same company sent the ashes of Gene Roddenberry (Star Trek creator) to space as the first-ever space burial, back in 1992. Upcoming missions will send DNA and human ashes even farther, into Deep Space.
9YBp TIL that there is a group of US millionaires who want to be taxed at a higher rate in order to benefit the US economy. Patriotic Millionaires For Fiscal Strength
yVYGM TIL Michael Jackson joined Jimmy Carter on an immunization campaign and gave more than 10,000 children tickets to his concert as a reward for being immunized against preventable childhood diseases
pLe TIL that since 1993, more than 700 girls and women have been raped, tortured, mutilated, and murdered in the Northern Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez, which has the highest female murder rate per capita of any city in Mexico or the US. It’s being called “femicide”.