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TIL of pneumoencephalography, a diagnostic procedure used until the 1970s where doctors drained most of the cerebral spinal fluid around the brain and replaced it with oxygen in order to make the brain show up more clearly on an X-ray

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nGGr TIL Real-time (to the day) drug use in urban areas can be monitored through sampling the sewage.
e0k6n TIL that broccoli is a man made vegetable. It’s a human invention made from wild cabbage.
8ee1V TIL Otis Redding never heard the completed version of his only No. 1 hit, “Sittin’ On The Dock Of The Bay.”
QoRd TIL the number of days Phil spends in the time loop of the movie Groundhog Day was estimated to be around 30-40 years
0bmv TIL the Sega Master System is now the longest-lived Video Games Console, due to it still being manufactured and sold in Brazil.