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TIL in the 1980s Bayer knowingly sold medicine that carried a high risk of transmitting AIDS, infecting thousands of people around the world. After realizing their product was contaminated Bayer kept sending the same medicine to Asia and Latin America, while selling a new safer version in the West.

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m6Bx TIL of Kalief Browder, arrested in the spring of 2010, at age sixteen, for a robbery he insisted he had not committed, who spent 3 years at the Rikers Island prison without being convicted of a crime (2 of which was in solitary) and without seeing a trial. He committed suicide after his release.
8a0Z4 TIL about a Russian woman who gave birth to a total of 69 children, making her the most prolific mother ever.
VOXB TIL a fitness trainer intentionally gained over 70 pounds to better understand the plight of his overweight clients. Then lost it all again six months later.
MeWwB TIL dry erase marker removes Sharpie from laptop screens (courtesy of my 5yo son)
XDYP TIL that Logitech will send you a free USB extension cable for their wireless devices