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TIL A lab technician accidentally created a burst of nuclear fission and was exposed to radiation levels 7 times above lethal limits in under a second.

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lJMK TIL in 1995 drug giant GlaxoSmithKline gathered over one hundred black and hispanic orphans, including toddlers and babies, to test the “toxicity” of their AIDS medication on them. They continued to do this for nearly ten years.
kJ4ve TIL there was a plan to gild the Statue of Liberty in gold.
kpbW TIL: Hawk moths can jam a bat’s echolocation by rubbing their genitals together to create ultrasound disruption, throwing the bat off.
oRJ7W TIL in the 1950s, when the CIA was fighting the Huks, a communist guerrilla movement in the Philippines, they spread rumors that evil men would be attacked by an aswang or 'vampire'. As part of psychological warfare, they punctured holes in a dead body and drained it of blood for others to find.
JY1D8 TIL parts of Tokyo’s transit system was designed by intelligent fungus.