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TIL that Color-Changing Inks Can Be Printed onto Clothing to Warn the Wearer About Potential Health Issues

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VaWD TIL of Oliver Sipple, a gay marine who saved President Gerald Ford in an assassination attempt but was then publicly outed as gay, causing him to become estranged from his family, drink heavily, gain 300 pounds (140 kilograms), and finally die at the age of just 47.
0M4y TIL in World War I, Germans used a non-lethal gas that could penetrate American gas masks and cause vomiting. When soldiers removed their masks to vomit, they were exposed to the fatal gasses already in the air.
6E8Kl TIL Apple was fined $9 million in Australia because it misled hundreds of Australian customers by ‘bricking’ their iPhones in a software update and then denying them repairs. The customers were informed they were no longer entitled to a repair because they had used a third party to fix their devices
KOPDG TIL: After the final Beatles tour of the USA in 1966, Paul McCartney disguised himself with a false moustache and drove around France to see what not being famous was like.
MVb7 TIL n 2008, hydroelectric power contributed to 98.5% of Norwegian power generation.