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TIL "SOS" doesn't stand for anything, it's just a distinguishable Morse code message. (Some backronyms have since been applied)

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E1YBP TIL Naked mole rats defy the biological law of aging - They rarely get cancer, are resistant to some types of pain, and can survive up to 18 minutes without oxygen. But perhaps their greatest feat, a new paper suggests, is that they don't age. Naked mole-rat mortality rates do not increase with age.
mEAY TIL that when Mel Blanc, famous Loony Toons voice actor, fell into a coma, he was unresponsive until a neurosurgeon addressed him as Bugs Bunny… to which he replied, “Myeeeeh. What’s up doc?”
VMvr4 TIL In 1902, The 70th Miracle At Our Lady Of Lourdes In France Converted Nobel Prize-Winning Doctor, Dr. Carrell To Faith When Marie Bailly, Suffering From Acute Tuberculous Peritonitis Was Miraculously Healed With ‘Holy Water’ & Officially Declared Supernatural.
mxVbo TIL about Dehomag, a German subsidiary of IBM and was the main provider of computing equipment in Nazi Germany. It provided the German government with machines to conduct censuses and gave the Nazis a way of tracing Jews. The technology was used by the Gestapo to locate and arrest its victims.
VpmD TIL that 11 year old James Dean was sexually abused by a minister and had a sexual relationship with a methodist pastor in his teenage years.