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TIL Every year, OSHA publishes a list of workplace deaths with a one sentence description of what happened

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wLA68 Today I learned about the "James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher" language puzzle.
5Qm8 TIL that D.A.R.E., the education program that seeks to prevent use of controlled drugs, has been deemed “ineffective” repeatedly in multiple studies.
E1j07 TIL, during World War II, Soviet physicists Anatoly Alexandrov & Igor Kurchatov created the LPTI system, which helps in demagnetizing ships to protect them from German naval mines. By the end of 1941, the system was successfully used by Soviet Navy in the Baltic Sea and Black Sea naval campaigns.
VMylG TIL A man in the Philippines experiences monthly period. He also has and ovary and uterus.
l7BMG TIL that Mahatma Ghandi sought the counsel of Leo Tolstoy in 1910, as both were staunch vegetarians, and Ghandi opened "Tolstoy Farm" in South Africa to promote peace, love and balance