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TIL that the phrase "Mad as a hatter" was born because men who worked in the hattery industry was suffering from mercury poisoning due the substance being used in the process of hat making.

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YpDLG TIL that the Powerball drawing on March 30, 2005, produced 110 2nd-prize winners. The total payout was $19.4 million, 89 of them receiving $100,000 each, while the other 21 received $500,000 each. All 110 winners had played numbers from fortune cookies made by Wonton Food Inc
GbaQ TIL that astronauts are not allowed to take bread into space. This is due to astronaut John Young smuggling a corned beef sandwich on Gemini III. The sandwich crumbled apart and launched crumbs in all directions, creating a potential safety/equipment hazard.
xV601 TIL of Phoenix air group. The only airline certified by the CDC and FAA, capable of flying a patient with Ebola.
y1aa TIL that the blobfish is actually a normal looking fish, it just decompresses when you take it out of extreme depths.
XE8JQ TIL in the rushed rampup to train military pilots during World War II from a thousand graduates in 1939 to hundreds of thousands by 1945, over 15,000 Americans died in nearly 30,000 crashes in stateside training alone