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TIL that hand boilers can indeed be used to measure blood pressure through the variations of temperature at different pressures.

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gBWy TIL that a father made his son work his way to modernity by playing through the history of video games chronologically rather than let him play whatever video game he wanted. The boy started with 1979’s Galaxian.
AN7Vo TIL that Ikea acquired TaskRabbit in 2017
LwRv TIL “Judas” goats helped eradicate invasive goats in the Galápagos Islands. These goats are sterilized, GPS tracked, and given hormones to attract other goats so that armed hunters could kill all the goats from a helicopter, but leave the Judas goats alive so they could be used to find more goats.
VaN4 TIL that during the San Francisco Police Department Strike of 1975, the SFPD clashed with the law and the Mayor. Eventfully a bomb was detonated on the Mayor’s lawn with a sign reading “Don’t Threaten Us.”
NllN TIL that the pharmacological treatment of Hepatitis C is over 90% effective. In the United States, it typically costs between $84,000-$94,000.