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TIL about Thomas Midgley, considered the Most Harmful Inventor in History who invented leaded gasoline and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), Both of these inventions caused a great magnitude of damage to both human and planetary health.

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x6PP1 TIL that the spiny dogfish has one of the longest pregnancies on Earth, lasting up to two years.
0wKPj TIL that Yuri Kondratyuk, Soviet pioneer of astronautics, while working in Siberia, built an enormous wooden grain elevator with a capacity of 13 000 tons without using any nails. Due to using such an unusual construction, he was arrested in suspicion of sabotage. The elevator stood till the 90s.
xVQW5 TIL the Dilbert comic ran a story-line that was published around Easter about a new hire named Jesus, pronounced 'hey-soos', who was fired but returned three days later.
l7lMA TIL a grieving mother from India had twins through surrogacy using her dead son's semen.
6l78 TIL the community of LexPark in Lexington, Kentucky has instated an annual “Food for Fines” program - a month long food drive that allows people to at least partially pay their parking tickets in canned food, which is then donated directly to area food banks that help feed the needy