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TIL that in the US, production of alarm clocks was allowed in 1944, despite them containing brass needed for war materials, because workers kept missing their shifts due to a critical alarm clock shortage.

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VM0DD TIL that Timothy Ray Brown is considered to be the first person cured of HIV/AIDS. Brown had chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant to treat leukaemia. His transplant came from someone with a natural genetic resistance to HIV. He was cured of HIV but scientists don’t fully understand why.
RMG4 TIL Before his arrest in 2012, Kim Dotcom was the world’s number one-ranked Modern Warfare 3 player out of more than 15 million online players.
e7eb TIL that in 1998 the NIH changed lowered the BMI scores that would be normal, overweight, or obese. 29 million Americans became overweight over night, even though there was no clinical reason. However 7 out of 9 people on the committee worked for or owned weight loss companies.
xovo TIL that in 2010 an unlucky airline passenger was arrested in Ireland after Slovak security officials placed explosives in his luggage for training, then forgot to remove them before the plane took off.
dEyQ TIL 24 of the top 25 countries for alcohol consumption are in Europe.