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TIL that snail mucus is used as a cosmetic skin treatment.

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7rvJM TIL That the Titanic had only about 2/3 of its maximum capacity of people when it sank and more than 1000 extra people could have died had it been at maximum capacity
XEoA8 TIL there is a gold fire hydrant in San Francisco that is said to have been the only functioning hydrant and is credited with saving the historic Mission District neighborhood during the 1906 quake. It is Painted with a fresh coat of gold paint each April 18
Wk8DN TIL a woman named Frances Perkins was outside the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory during the fire and saw dozens of people jump to their deaths due to unsafe work conditions. She went on to become the first female Secretary of Labor and founded the Factory Investigating Commission to improve work safety
g8l4 TIL Jack Ruby, the guy who killed Oswald on live TV, claimed that the JFK assassination “was an act of overthrowing the government” and that he had been injected with cancer cells in prison to silence him. By 1966, Ruby was dead from cancer in his liver, lungs and brain.
LklxV TIL: The release of a new Harry Potter book had such an impact that researchers in Oxford found that the admission rate of children with traumatic injuries to the city's emergency rooms plummeted on the publication weekends of both Order of the Phoenix and Half-Blood Prince.