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TIL About “Cancer Alley” a part of south Louisiana where corporations/fossil fuel industry has been allegedly spreading illness

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9wp1B TIL about the time the Thomas Jefferson teamed up with Joseph-Ignace Guillotin on a special mission for the French Crown to determine whether Mesmerism was quackery or not
x6Al1 TIL the Treasury Dept. official in charge of the money laundering investigation of Sothebys, and the hi-value art market, was named Scott Rembrandt.
DeLJ TIL One of the first original television programs in America was “The Television Ghost,” which featured dead people telling the stories of their murders.
ewJk TIL That a 78 year old man has, since the 80’s, been building a doomsday shelter that can house 500 people, is heavily fortified, runs on internal generators, and has a decontamination room, a radio station, and a chapel. Also anyone is welcome free of charge.
rR0Wd TIL Toxoplasmosis, a disease spread by cats and mostly harmless to humans, is a deadly disease to kangaroos