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TIL Medical Errors Are No. 3 Cause Of U.S Deaths

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E10rx TIL about Radium Girls who mixed radium paint for watches and used camel hair brushes to apply the glowing paint onto the dials. The brushes would lose shape after a few strokes so the U.S. Radium supervisors encouraged their workers to point the brushes with their lips (lip, dip, paint). 1917-1926
8aJZ8 TIL that there are more stars in the sky than grains of sand on Earth
JYg6j TIL that Uber drivers in China changed their profile photos to ghosts and zombie images so that when potential passengers saw these pictures they would cancel the ride they’d just booked, thus earning the driver the cancellation fee.
Bnvr TIL that the man responsible for creating both NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys is serving 25 years in jail for fraud and running one of the largest Ponzi schemes in history
y1pv TIL In 1953, an Anglican priest founded the Samaritans, the world’s first crisis suicide hotline. He was inspired to do so years previously after serving the funeral of a 14 year old girl who committed suicide because she had begun to menstruate & feared that she had a sexually transmitted disease.