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TIL Today it's a mouse, and not a fairy, that leaves money or gifts for children in many parts of the world, including France, Mexico, Spain and Peru.

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NoMP TIL in 1965 a young American tourist illegally crossed the Norwegian-Soviet border, walked up to a Soviet border post and demanded the guards stamp his passport. He was arrested, sentenced to a detention camp and died on the train there.
N6K8 TIL there is a city in Russia where the pollution is so severe that mining the topsoil is now economically feasible because it contains so many heavy metals.
mwao TIL Bayer sold HIV and Hepatitis C contaminated blood products which caused up to 10,000 people in the U.S. alone to contract HIV. After they found out the drug was contaminated, they pulled it off the U.S. market and sold it to countries in Asia and Latin America so they could still make money.
O5Y7 TIL that Steve Jobs always parked in the handicap parking zone
p1wZ TIL that most languages have a bias against left-handed people. Left is derived from ‘lyft’, meaning weak. In Dutch, 'Link’ means cunning. In German, 'link’ means questionable. In Mandarin, it’s zuô, meaning improper, and in Turkish the word for left is sol, which can mean both 'die’ and 'ill’.