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TIL that the snow used in the Wizard of Oz was actually asbestos fibre

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PKRJ TIL Researchers at Northwestern University have developed a blood test to measure major depression in adults by measuring nine RNA blood markers.
L1xP TIL The first woman to break the sound barrier was an american WWII veteran. Her own government denied her use of a plane, so she asked the Canadian military. They loaned her a plane plus 16 crew AND shipped them to California so she could break the record even though she wasn’t a citizen.
J11pj TIL the hula hoop isn't simply a fad from the 1950s. Hoops have been twirled by adults and children since at least 500 BC
Br8DL TIL that Ishinosuke Uwano, a WWII Japanese soldier who had been missing since 1958, was found alive in Ukraine aged 83. He’d been declared dead in 2000. He hadn't visited Japan in 60 years and had to enter the country on a Ukraine passport.
PxnJ TIL that scientists can read dreams using brain scans.