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TIL 6 kids were poisoned in 1963 from wearing new, unwashed jeans that had been exposed to pesticide. (2 boys whose pants were washed before wearing them did not get sick)

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bdB7 TIL Mao Zedong, in a power-play against Nikita Khrushchev’s visit in 1958, forced him to conduct a meeting in a pool. 200+ pound Khrushchev, who could not swim, was forced to wear floaters in the kiddie side of the pool while Mao swam laps and conducted the meeting.
ReXj TIL the T-shirt was invented in 1904 and marketed to bachelors who couldn’t sew or replace buttons
0w8a5 TIL Devil Facial Tumour Disease is a cancer affecting Tasmanian Devils. It wiped out 95% of affected colonies between 1996 and 2015. The devils already had a gene which fought the tumour, but its frequency increased with natural selection. Devil populations now survive in disease-stricken areas.
mxQGo TIL Joe Strummer, frontman of The Clash, was paid £100 to marry his first wife Pamela Moolman so she could obtain British citizenship. Afterwards, he began a long relationship with Gaby Salter, but couldn't marry her because he couldn't locate Moolman to divorce her first
7A1P TIL that a whistleblower named Gustl Mollath was forcibly committed to a psychiatric hospital for claiming that a major bank was engaging in money laundering. A report by the bank itself later leaked, proved that Mollath was right and allowed him to be released.