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TIL that up until as recently as the 1950’s, candy stripers sold cigarettes to hospital patients in bed

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EgYMP TIL that residents of Missouri are the most likely to die early in the United States, with 13,781 life years lost before age 75 per 100,000 people.
D1noJ TIL Xenophanes (c. 570 – c. 475 BC) was the first person known to have used fossils as evidence for a theory of the history of the Earth. Having discovered fossils of marine life on a mountain he posited they were once underwater.
EgGnd TIL that Dick Gephardt is the only Leader of the House Democratic Caucus since 1929 to have never become Speaker of the House.
Z8BXv TIL about George Cassiday, the Man in the Green Hat. During Prohibition, Cassiday supplied alcohol to members of Congress, including those who voted for prohibition in the first place. After ten years, when the story broke, the public's outrage contributed the repeal of the 18th Amendment.
78EoP TIL that needle-free 'virtually painless' injections are possible through laser technology.