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TIL chewing of the drug Khat is so popular in Yemen that its cultivation accounts for 40% of the desert nation’s water use

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KOjrB TIL that Dr. David W. Hartman is the first blind person to graduate from medical school (since 1872)
lJ8a TIL the words hysteria, hysterical & hysterics has the root word hyster, Greek for womb. The ancient Greeks believed women have a wandering womb that would attack their brains every now & then.
VMomp TIL that if there are 23 people in a room, there’s a 50% chance that 2 of them share a birthday. If there are 70 people in a room, there’s a 99.9% chance that 2 if them share a birthday. This is called the Birthday Problem or Birthday Paradox
5YOw8 TIL there is a certain temperature and humidity at which a human can't cool down, and will die from the heat of their own metabolism
4Xvgg TIL James Cameron made the movie Titanic to get a dive to the shipwreck funded by the movie studio; not because he particularly wanted to make the movie.