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TIL Star Trek’s James Doohan (‘Scotty’) prevented a fan from committing suicide. His support and encouragement inspired her to go back to school and become an electronics engineer.

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g6OD TIL lipstick may contain metal in toxic amounts. Daily use of lipstick and/or lip gloss may expose women to excessive amounts of the metal chromium which is associated with stomach cancer. Also, 75% of products tested contain lead. There is no way for consumers to find out a product’s metal content.
KOKr9 TIL Late in his life, Charles Lindbergh had affairs that produced three children by a German woman and two children by her sister. These children only found out who their father was using DNA testing after his death.
9YPnB TIL Australian school authorities once accidentally gave a standardized history exam asking students to analyze a painting of the Bolshevik Revolution with a giant robot in the background. When apologizing, they promised "new guidelines governing the use of internet-sourced material in exams."
NQWb TIL that Hammurabi’s Law Code required the accusers to bring the accused into court by themselves, without any help from authorities
901M TIL in 2008, a 15-year-old liver transplant patient became the first person in the world to take on the immune system and blood type of her donor.