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TIL of a disease known as 'popcorn lung.' A respiratory illness due to exposure to a chemical that flavors microwave popcorn. Before most companies removed this chemical, a man who ate two bags a day and inhaled the steam, sued a food company and was awarded $7 mil.

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negNP TIL During the Great Depression, members of the Civilian Conservation Corps planted over 3 billion trees in the US in under ten years.
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OVga TIL: When the first and only US Space Station SkyLab crashed semi-controlled in Australia scattering debris in the state of Shire of Esperance, NASA got fined by Australian authorities 400$ for littering.
0w8nM TIL about Ralph Lazo, a Mexican-American who voluntarily relocated to a World War II Japanese American internment camp (Manzanar) to join his Japanese-American friends and neighbors. He was the only known non-spouse, non-Japanese American at Manzanar, where he lived for 2.5 years.