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TIL Victorians knowingly poisoned their food resulting in half a million Children dying of Tuberculosis from milk that was “purified” with alkali.

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j6Zon TIL that a man survived a fall from the 47th floor of a skyscraper in New York City in 2007. His fall was broken by a series of scaffolding, and he only suffered minor injuries. Doctors called his survival a "miracle."
awDnN TIL Nicolas Cage once ate mushrooms with his cat. Nic Cage told David Letterman in an interview that his cat once ate some mushrooms that he accidentally left out. Cage decided the only sociable thing to do was to partake as well and join his cat on its "trip."
E1JEX TIL that King Tutankhamun (14th Century BC Pharaoh) was entombed with a dagger of "extraterrestrial origin." Advanced spectrometry tests strongly suggest the iron, nickel, and cobalt contained in the blade are from a meteorite that crashed near the the Kharga Oasis about 200 km west of the Nile.
jN45j TIL that the German city of Augsburg was given a colony in present-day Venezuela called Klein-Venedig in the 1500s when the Habsburg emperor couldn't repay a loan back in cash
QJ1Wk TIL of the Sook Ching, a systematic purge of Chinese Singaporeans during the Second World War carried out by the Imperial Japanese Kenpeitai. Between 5000-25000 people are estimated to have been killed.