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TIL that actor Tim Curry based his accent for Frank N. Furter on Queen Elizabeth II

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LQL0 TIL nearly 100,000 hemophiliacs around the world were given blood products contaminated with hepatitis C or HIV. Bayer, Baxter and the other companies involved knew the products were contaminated but distributed them anyway. The FDA hushed up the matter and no executives have ever been investigated.
yQxJp TIL during WWII the British planned to build a giant aircraft carrier out of ice (actually a wood pulp/ice mix) to protect the convoys in the Atlantic from German U boats. The project ended owing to rising costs and the development of longer-range aircraft that closed the gap in air coverage.
QJv8k TIL The oldest human construction are some Australian Aboriginal Fish Traps (40,000 years old)
0wepj TIL more then 50% of Frenchmen cheat on their spouses. In addition, about 50% do not think cheating is "morally unacceptable"
xRmB TIL that a Portland dairy was forced to pay staff over $10 million in back pay because of a missing Oxford comma in the state overtime laws.