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69Qdw TIL about Scheele’s Green (aka Schloss Green), an arsenic-laced artificial color very popular in the 19th century, showing up in artificial flowers, candles, toys, fashionable ladies’ clothing, soap, beauty products, confections, and wallpaper and leading to scores of deaths.
Wkp44 TIL that Sam Houston was removed as governor of Texas for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederate States of America.
x657k TIL Halo 2 was delayed due to a picture of a developer's butt
X4nX TIL in 2007 a Belgian senatorial candidate posed nude and promised voters 40,000 blowjobs in a campaign ad. She didn’t win.
LQdQP TIL that one person is a doctor, lawyer, dentist, and scientist. Scott Orr has DDS, PhD, JD, and MD degrees. He is a professor of anesthesiology, law, plastic surgery, and sports medicine in Las Vegas.