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TIL of 'elysis', a new smelting process for aluminum that releases oxygen instead of carbon dioxide. This new production process both cuts operating costs by 15% and increases production by 15%. Apple has invested $11 million in the venture behind it and is offering technical support.

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OGJKY TIL about the medical "interventions," more accurately experiments on "prisoners" in British India for malaria, cholera, typhoid, & plague. In one incident, Muslim prisoners fasting for Ramadan were forcibly given weekly doses of quinine for malaria treatments.
lolZA TIL following JFK’s assassination, the President’s body could not legally be removed from the hospital under Texas law before an autopsy had been performed. Secret Service agents ended up putting Dallas officials against the wall at gunpoint in order for his body to be released.
epe5D Today I learned that beekeeping suits are white because bees have seemingly evolved an aggressive defensive response towards dark figures approaching their nest which white suits helps to counteract
N7RJE TIL the prosthetics in The Elephant Man (1980) were designed directly from body casts of Joseph Merrick (aka the Elephant Man) made in 1890 & preserved for 90 years in a hospital museum. The prosthetics were so acclaimed that audiences pressured The Oscars into creating the "Best Makeup" award
ADeao Til that military working dogs used by the US in Vietnam were either left behind or euthanized, mostly the latter.