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TIL In 1999, it snowed so much in Toronto that the army was called to shovel the city out.

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9YM5G TIL up until around the 1970s, hospital laboratory workers used mouth pipetting to transfer patient's blood for testing from one container to the next, frequently getting the patients blood or other chemicals in their mouth.
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