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TIL about the Bhopal Disaster, a chemical leak from a pesticide plant in India that killed and injured more people than Chernobyl.

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lo9Dr TIL how Santa Barbara California got its name. On December 4, 1602, Spanish explorer Sebastian Vizcaino sailed through the Santa Barbara Channel, which he named in honor of St. Barbara’s Feast Day. It wasn’t until 1782 that the town of Santa Barbara received its name.
b6lpa TIL of Strivers' Row, a district of Harlem, NYC, whose houses were built in the 1890s. The houses sat empty for more than 20 years because at first the owner would only sell to white people, but by the 1920s the area had become the leading district for upper-middle class black families.
R7a07 TIL that Swadesh list is a list of the 207 most common words in any language, great if you want to start to learn a new language
lE1B TIL that Steve Jobs had a relatively treatable type of cancer, however, he pursued pseudo-medicine for 9 months, leading to his death
1aOAX TIL Benny Medina created The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air after growing up poor in East LA. His life changed when he befriended a rich white teenager, whose family lived in Beverly Hills and allowed Medina to live with them. Medina decided to change the rich white family to a rich black family.