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TIL there is a full McBain mini-movie hidden throughout Simpsons epsiodes

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b9k9E TIL that when the USS Susan B. Anthony sank in 1944, after it was hit by a mine off the coast of Normandy, all 2,689 people aboard were saved. According to the Guinness world book of Records, this is the largest rescue of people without loss of life.
WkkWY Investigating diseases of prehistory
a790 TIL in the past 100 years, 80% of the biomass of fish in the world’s oceans has been lost.
ADOao TIL that Chiropractors are not a type of medical doctor, cannot practice medicine, and Chiropractic is a form of alternative medicine like acupuncture.
ep8oJ TIL that a person who was pregnant can have fetal tissue live in their body for decades and it's called Fetal Microchimerism. Studying FMc gives us information about the pathophysiology of the post partum body and correlation with autoimmune diseases like RA and Sjogrens.