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TIL there is a secret carpool society in Washington DC
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TIL that penny dreadfuls, pulp novels from the 1800s, were once blamed for the criminal behavior of young men in the same way that video games are blamed today.
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TIL that in 1945, Eisenhower predicted that people would try to deny the holocaust, and had multiple pictures taken of the Nazi crimes to hinder any such attempts.
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TIL that sniffing glue really can get you high. It can also give you brain damage, heart problems, liver damage, lung problems, and kill you in various other ways.
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TIL of Black Wednesday, the first Wednesday of every August when the new cohort of junior doctors begin working in the NHS after graduating medical school, where patients are about 6% more likely to die than on other days
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TIL about one of the rare cases of the Lazarus Syndrome. Walter Williams, 78, from Lexington, Mississippi, declared by a coroner at his home on 26 February 2014. Once at a funeral home, he was found to be moving. The next day he was well enough to be talking with family, but died fifteen days later.