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TIL Philly Soul laid the groundwork for Disco genre

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wLJ0W TIL around 10% of the population of Canada were infected by the 2009 Swine Flu
VRDp TIL that in 2009 Kashmir, when 18-year old Rukhsana Kausar saw her parents being beaten as part of a forced marriage proposal by a militia commander, she killed one militant with an ax, gunned the commander down, then started a 4 hour gun battle with the militia.
Y79Ed TIL about Karen Wetterhahn who was a chemist that died of severe trimethylmercury poisoning. Her life could've been saved, if she had removed her gloves before 15 seconds of exposure to a drop of it. In 1996, regulatory bodies didn't know latex gloves were insufficient; she died almost a year later.
8ONX TIL that in 1787 a large shark was caught in the Thames river, and when the contents of its stomach was examined it included a watch, silver chain and seal that had belong to a British sailor who had been lost at sea, but was originally from Shoreditch.
4kX4N TIL that in the years preceding the French Revolution, the price of bread went from costing about 50% of a laborer's daily wages to about 88% of their income.