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TIL: the tv series Flipper only ran for 3 seasons, but made 88 episodes.

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nGV7 TIL that there is a real criminal called Dr. Chaos who is currently being held in Federal supermax prison in Colorado for causing 28 power failures and hoarding large amounts of cyanide.
nv0o TIL that Dr. Eugene Lazowski saved an estimated 8000 Polish Jews from concentration camps during WWII by injecting them with Typhus to create the appearance of an epidemic, causing them to be quarantined while not actually making them ill.
MeYYK TIL, There is a center in the NIH called National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health and that some of their projects include whether magnets can cure migraines and whether lavender scents improve wound healing and more. Answer: both do not.
PYadg TIL that Winter Storms in the United States are named solely by the Weather Channel and not recognized by other agencies including the National Weather Service.
Pebn TIL that South Korea is the world leader in.. suicides. Currently there is an average of 31.7 suicides per 100,000 people. Only .1 more than Lithuania’s 31.6 suicide rate which is the second highest.