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TIL a year long investigation found that the coal industry was paying doctors and lawyers to defeat benefit claims of coal miners who contracted black lung disease.

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4kA6a TIL that 5 Christian Churches use the title of Patriarch of Antioch: the Syriac Orthodox, the Maronite, the Syriac Catholic, the Melkite Greek Catholic, and the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch. Although no current patriarch is based in the city of Antioch (modern-day Antakya, Turkey)
ADWnd TIL Left-handed people's brains are so different from right-handed that they are often excluded from many psychological research studies
mxWLM TIL some species of owls have one ear slightly higher on their head than the other, which makes them a very rare example of an animal with an asymmetrical body.
DQKOY TIL that sperm can work together in a sort of "sperm train" for faster collective movement
E1wvV TIL about a YouTube microcommunity of people who have their own VHS video stores built in their basements. Some even have cash registers and candy/popcorn displays.