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TIL: A chemical previously used in microwave popcorn bags caused “popcorn lung” a cancer mainly affecting workers inhaling diacetyl in microwave popcorn factories.

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v1wwj TIL the Lo-Fi girl video was a livestream, and that it had been running for 1.5 years before the channel got suspended in error, creating the longest running YT video
KOppJ TIL that in 16th-century England, the midwives' oath included not allowing the mother to falsely name the father of the child, not exchanging the child after birth, not using sorcery or incantations during the labour or delivery, and not dismembering the child or cutting or pulling their head off
1ay77 TIL: The first recorded usage of BC/AD years was in the year 525 AD
OX8Y TIL that during WW2 Nazi Germany had a hospital/concentration camp in village Krasny Bereg where they drained all blood from thousands of soviet children (obviously, killing them in the process) to transfuse it to wounded soldiers of the Wehrmacht
R7GpQ TIL: A hedge fund has 35 days to close out a "failure to deliver" on a short sale.