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TIL You could have lasting brain injury without any obvious symptoms

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WaPX TIL Spanking increases rates of childhood defiance and mental health issues. The study in question involves 50 years worth of research and more than 160,000 children
Vn7Z TIL that the childhood epidemic of asthma may be caused by the switch to Tylenol in the 1980s
p8xWA TIL that the Concorde airplane flew so fast, if you left London (or Paris) in the evening flying west towards New York, to the passengers in the plane, the sun would actually appear to begin rising again shortly after reaching cruising speed. The plane flew faster than the Earth's rotation.
xVB8o TIL that Cyndi Lauper, uncredited, sang the theme song to Pee Wee's Playhouse.
N7D8P TIL some of James Doohan’s (Scotty the Engineer from the original Star Trek series) ashes are hidden in the floor of the International Space Station after being smuggled there in 1998.