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TIL the stethoscope was invented because a French doctor felt uncomfortable placing his face on a younger woman’s chest.

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kaWe TIL China’s pet markets make most of their money on ill animals. Vendors perform tabletop plastic surgery to make sickly mutts resemble more valuable breeds, then pump them full of new blood laced with painkillers and stimulants. The dogs are known as “week dogs,” because they die in seven days.
D1E4r TIL In the 1960's, a gun fired bullets that had tiny little rockets inside to give no recoil and high stability. Today, they cost around $100 per round.
4XAda TIL the Mediterranean had dried up and been refilled by Atlantic for at least 69 times due to the total close up and re-open of the Strait of Gibraltar. at its prime time, the Atlantic-Gibraltar waterfall was 1000 times bigger than Niagara.
KOMmQ TIL that in 1966, Kenneth McDuff murdered three people and was sentenced to death. His sentence was later commuted to life, and he was paroled in 1989. He went on to murder at least four more people, was caught in 1992, once again sentenced to death, and executed in 1998.
WkyA4 TIL That Men Who Receive Blood From Women That Have Been Pregnant Are More Likely To Have A Shorter Life Span