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TIL many farmers are cracking their JD tractors with premium pirated software made by eastern europeans due to how expensive repairing their machines is.

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QJRGM TIL that about two-thirds of American adults are either overweight or obese.
DEPr TIL Roger Deakins, Director Of Photography for films like Skyfall and No Country For Old Men stopped shooting documentaries because he witnessed a schizophrenic woman have an episode and his parter wanted to keep filming. Deakins instead decided to put the camera down and help the woman.
x6bYw TIL that Dr. Evan O'Neill Kane, who had removed his own appendix, was the first surgeon to bring music into the operating room
nE17 TIL: The longest a Great White Shark has lived in captivity is 44 days.
78WyZ TIL construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, which was built with the help of pressurised caissons (a watertight retaining structure), resulted in numerous workers being either killed or permanently injured by decompression sickness or caisson disease named after this design.