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TIL About The Billion Dollar Japanese Shrimp Ponzi Scheme

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5MrP TIL That objects entering Earth’s atmosphere heat up primarily because as they fall they cause the air in front of them to compress and get hot, NOT from the friction with the air.
4XdDJ TIL about James Barry (born Margaret Bulkley), an esteemed military surgeon who reformed medical standards across the British Empire. He performed one of the 1st C-sections where both mother & child survived. After Barry's death in 1865, it was discovered his assigned sex at birth was female.
VBMOp TIL that 86% of acute onset OCD cases are linked to streptococcus infections in children due to pediatric acute onset neuropsychiatric syndrome.
A8Dn TIL that Steve Wozniak is a collector of phone numbers. After acquiring the number 888-8888 for his cell phone, it proved to be unusable because babies playing with phones kept on calling it.
kRX5 TIL that to create cars suitable for animals to drive in Zootopia, Disney enlisted the former head of design at Ford