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TIL Eating hair can result in large, undigestible masses in the stomach called "bezoars" that may require surgery to remove

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4AZR TIL that nurses and doctors wear green or blue scrubs to help relieve eye strain from constantly looking at red (patient’s insides), which is also opposite on the color wheel. They’re easier to wash and keep longer.
DQ0dp TIL one of the few people actually killed by an Australian Cassowary was an American man who thought it was a good idea to keep one as a pet.
E987 TIL the first man made aircraft to successfully land on another planet and send back data was the Soviet Venera 7 in 1970. After landing on Venus, the craft sent back only 23 minutes of weak data, presumably because it landed on its side.
M4PW TIL the Miss Navajo Nation pageant requires contestants to butcher a sheep
QJZP6 TIL the timezone on the International Space Station is GMT+0