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TIL chemotherapy patients should flush the toilet twice to avoid injuring others.

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OjX TIL James May was fired from Autocar magazine for inserting a hidden message into one issue
W7159 TIL that the oldest undisputed depiction of a human (discovered so far) is the Venus of Hohle Fels from about 40,000 years ago. It is housed today in a museum in the small German town of Blaubeuren, close to where it was discovered.
4XBL6 TIL that Star Trek character astromycologist Paul Stamets has his name as an allusion to real-life mycologist, entrepreneur and author Paul Stamets, who advocates for the ecological benefits of mushrooms
X0AgQ TIL Unlike most of his astronaut colleagues, Apollo 13 astronaut Jack Swigert was single and had the reputation of being a playboy who liked to party
x61Yo TIL of the field recordings of Alan Lomax, a folklorist. He travelled recording a wide spectrum of musical performances, stories, jokes and personal narratives for the US Library of Congress in the 1930s. His life's work is now digitally archived.