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TIL a 32-year-old man’s habit of inhaling nitrous oxide via “whippits” left him unable to walk for 2 weeks before he visited an ER. He lost the use of his legs about 3 months after his habit began due to a condition caused by a deficiency of vitamin B12. He was successfully treated with B12 shots.

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yVJvV TIL Dominik Hašek, one of the best NHL goaltenders of all time, was drafted by the Chicago Blackhawks in 1983. Because Hašek was from Czechoslovakia and behind the Iron Curtain, he did not know he was drafted by Chicago until several months later.
4owR TIL The FBI can wiretap almost anything with the click of a button using DCSNet.
x6bXB TIL that the pimp from the movie Taxi Driver was originally written to be black as it matched what the writer of the movie was seeing in everyday life but he was changed to white as it was thought to have been unpalatable to audiences
WDE8 TIL that Japanese Buddhists would self-sacrifice by sealing themselves inside a ship boarded-up like a coffin. At sea they either pulled a wooden plug from the hull and drowned or died of thirst or starvation.
JVVj TIL that Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence on a “laptop,” a kind of writing desk that could fit on one’s lap.