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TIL that Americans often abbreviate electrocardiogram as “EKG” because German physicians were early pioneers in the field, and the German word for the procedure is Elektrokardiogramm.

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Z8DDQ TIL Isaac Newton developed nearly all his best-known theories during an impromptu "gap year," while Cambridge University was closed due to plague.
y4yl TIL Brandenn E. Bremmer was a child prodigy who taught himself how to read at 18 months and began playing the piano at 3. He completed high school at age 10 and committed suicide at 14.
aBQ0 TIL: Usain Bolt ate nothing but chicken nuggets while he was in Beijing because that was “the only thing he knew” and won 3 gold medals
woyA1 TIL The New Mexico ranch where the 1947 Roswell UFO crash happened opened up to public tours for the first time in 2018. The crash site is not in Roswell but actually by the small town of Corona
yQjDa TIL That the American Fat Salvage Committee was created to urge housewives to save all the excess fat rendered from cooking and donate it to the army to produce explosives during World War II.