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TIL: The first chemotherapy drugs were derived from Mustard gas - a chemical warfare agent used during WWI

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OVvR TIL Newman’s Own donates all of its profits to charities (over $350 million since 1982) yet still pays taxes.
X0JDX TIL in the mid-1980s there was a Nerds cereal and that the box had two separate compartments and each compartment had its own flavor. It also came with a mail-in offer for a two-sided Nerds bowl that had a "Nerd Gate" that when lifted would allow milk on one side of the bowl to flow into the other.
JY7A8 TIL of Vasili Arkhipov, a Soviet Navy officer who saved the world by casting the one vote not to use nuclear torpedoes on the US Navy, thus averting a nuclear crisis
5YKoR TIL that Greenland Has a Grand Canyon Beneath Its Ice, Carved by Ancient Floods, where Ancient topography lurks beneath the white expanse.