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TIL I learned Charles Lindbergh used a mask called an Armbrust cup to reclaim the water from his breath. 34 years before Dune was published.

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lYxB TIL that in the ‘Clerks’ credits, the boom mike holder was credited as 'Whoever grabbed the pole’.
7QyX TIL there is a Japanese singer named Vanilla Chamu who has gone through 30+ surgeries to look like a French doll
LkmZQ TIL: The Great Cranberry Scare of 1959 occurred when scientists found traces of a carcinogen in a batch of cranberries just ahead of Thanksgiving. People panicked and the cranberry industry ground to a complete halt, but the cranberry business survived. In fact, it went on to thrive.
x6e85 TIL - Appetite control in the human body is so complex that there are ~20 appetite inhibitory hormones and 6 appetite stimulatory hormones all acting to maintain our satiety. This complex biology has made it exceptionally difficult to formulate drug interventions for appetite control.
9RDQ TIL Marvel created a superhero, Blue Ear, who wears a hearing aid solely because a 4 year old boy refused to wear one, stating “superheroes don’t wear hearing aids”.