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TIL Dogs sneeze when playful so that rough playing doesn’t turn into a fight.

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J1Bl1 TIL: In the late 1970’s, a radioactive Source of Cobalt-60 was smelted down to make rebar, and ~4000 people were exposed across Mexico and the US. The contamination was found in 1984, when a trucker took a wrong turn, into the Los Alamos Lab, setting off detectors.
d8NvK TIL that Charles Kelman, a pioneer of phacoemulsification, a modern cataract surgery method, was also a successful jazz musician, entertainer and Broadway producer. He regularly appeared on TV shows in the 70's and 80's in part to promote his surgical innovations.
wLv01 TIL that Naegleriasis is near-fatal disease caused by a small amoeba. It is quite rare but out of 450 cases in the last 60 years, only 7 have survived. It is essentially a brain-eating amoeba that is caused by contaminated water.
yQ4Ql TIL that when you eat fruit with its inherent fiber (aka eating the whole fruit) up to 30% of the sugar will be eaten by the microbes in your gut before it can be absorbed.
oRnNA TIL An officially licensed Homey D Clown video game was released for PC in 1993. Computer Gaming World ranked it as "the 5th-worst computer game ever released."