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TIL that 22c/71.6f is a cold spell in malaysia

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E1njw TIL That there was a pigment used in early days of wall paper called Sheele's Green. If it got moldy or damp it would release the arsenic in the air. It is speculated that this is the cause of Napoleons death as green was his favorite color and his walls were lined in green wallpaper.
PydZ TIL that women in the national House of Representatives did not get a nearby ladies room until 2011, almost 100 years after they first became present in the House.
a0LL TIL that his day, 20 years ago, Doomsday killed Superman. This angered so many fans that members of the DC writting team actually received death threats.
yNVp TIL- There is a tribe of people in an almost inaccessible Himalayan valley that made a decision to bring their own race to extinction by choosing to not have children. If you broke the no breeding tribal rule, you would be banned from the village, which was in essence a death sentence.
16ODX TIL that in 1993, an Amtrak Sunset Limited passenger train derailed on CSX Transportation's Big Bayou Canot Bridge in Alabama. 47 people were killed and 103 others were injured. Such a rail disaster had not occurred in the U.S. since the 1958 Newark Bayou rail accident, in which 48 people died.