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TIL The guy who invented autopilot also founded the Mile High Club

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D1n4e TIL that nipple rings were a fad in the 1890’s among Victorian women.
8YPP TIL in Japan’s universal health care system hospitals, by law, must be run as non-profit and be managed by physicians. For-profit corporations are not allowed to own or operate hospitals.
E1nP TIL brain-related criteria to identify the death of a patient (i.e. “brain death” = death) is not based on valid scientific data
e0reD TIL that it takes at least eight bees all their life to make one single teaspoonful of honey. Fortunately for us, they usually make more than they need, so we can have some, too.
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