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Today I Learned How Vinegar is Made
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TIL, premature babies in incubators were a sideshow along the boardwalk at Coney Island in the late 19th and early 20th century. Incubators wouldn't be widely used in hospitals for several more decades.
PMlJ
TIL Jackie Chan speaks 7 languages.Cantonese,Mandarin,English,German,Korean,Japanese and Thai including American sign language.
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TIL German scientist, Gerhard Domagk, developed the antibacterial agent Prontosil, a sulfonamide. He used this agent to treat his own daughter, preventing her from an arm amputation. He won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1939.
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TIL there was a private prison that fed vegan meals, gave Bible studies, offered job training, anger management, etc. where violence dramatically decreased and inmates of all races associated with each other, where only 2% were rearrested, when the state of California had a rearrest rate of 95%.
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TIL in 1935 "Happy Birthday to You" was copyrighted with a value of 5M making it illegal to sing. In 2016 a federal judge ruled that the copyright was not valid and the song had no other claim to copyright, placing it in the public domain, and making it free to sing for all.