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TIL Rust doesn't cause tetanus and is relatively harmless in small quantities

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VBXNp TIL there were Arctic Dinosaurs and that Dinosaurs were neither cold or warm blooded.
EJOw TIL that in 1973, a psychiatrist named David Rosenhan sent eight people with no history of mental illness to mental hospitals. The staff couldn’t tell they were sane. It took some 2 months to get out.
OG814 TIL former UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim's voice was used to record the longest audio greeting to extraterrestrials on the Voyager Spacecraft; approx. 7 years after the spacecraft was launched, Waldheim was publicly accused of participating in war crimes by famed "Nazi Hunter" Eli Rosenbaum
grLl8 TIL about the Reverse Mandela Effect - A phenomenon where an event or detail suddenly appears in the public consciousness that would have otherwise been too significant to forget. A popular example is the supposed assassination of MLK Jr.'s mother: Alberta Williams King.
vPbA8 TIL The 1984 UK parliamentary by election in Chesterfield was contested by 17 parties as diverse as the acne party, the Elvisly yours party, the I am not a number party, the Welshman party, the monster raving looney party and the reclassify the Sun newspaper as a comic party.