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TIL that, because of bleaching agents and hairspray, hairdressers are at very high risk of developing lung disease.

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4RVX TIL Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd president of the US, was the first president to have electricity in the White House but he never touched any light switches because he was too scared of getting electrocuted.
6EBa7 TIL that it is estimated that approximately 35 million Americans are descendants of the original 102 passengers who came to America aboard the Mayflower.
oadL TIL there is an informal strategy called the “small penis rule” used by fiction writers to avoid libel suits by writting the character like the real person but with a small penis so nobody claims the character represents them
4o6a TIL in 1987 a 19 year old German flew a small plane across Russia to Moscow and landed it in Red Square without being detected by Soviet authorities.
BgoWd TIL of Greek physician Georgios Papanikolaou, who invented the Papanikolaou, or “Pap” test, also known as a Pap Smear. This medical break-through provides low-cost, easily performed screening for early detection of cancerous and precancerous cells