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TIL Elena N. Bodnar has a US Patent for inventing a brassiere, that in an emergency, can act as a pair of protective face masks and she was awarded the Ig Nobel Public Health Prize for it in 2009.

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awLo0 TIL: Over the past two centuries, Singapore’s land area has expanded by a 25% – from 58,150 to 71,910 hectares (or 578 to 719 sq km).1 This gradual increase in land surface is not because of tectonic movements but rather the miracle of a man-made engineering feat known as land reclamation.
OoZ7X TIL When Stephen Colbert was 10 years old, his father, 2 brothers, and 69 others were killed when their plane crashed 5 miles from the runway amid dense fog. The crew failed to pay attention to the plane's altitude because they were busy trying to spot a nearby amusement park through the fog.
1a99D TIL about Malone Mukwende. He is actively creating a free medical handbook on skin conditions for POC to bridge the gap of exclusively caucasian examples of various skin afflictions in his medical textbooks.
OoEK1 TIL Nobel Chemistry winner Theodor Svedberg developed the technique of analytical ultracentrifugation, and demonstrated its utility in distinguishing pure proteins one from another
doLd TIL that mushrooms create their own breeze if there’s no wind to spread their spores