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TIL that blue M&M food dye reduces paralysis from secondary spinal injuries, such as swelling around the spinal cord and the effects of chemical surges around the the injury which kills off healthy and uninjured cells. The only notable side effect - it will turn you blue temporarily.

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e0Nxb TIL that pregnancy is counted from the first day of the last period. So if you were to conceive in the week before your period, you’d already be approx. 3 weeks pregnant (assuming a 4 week menstrual cycle)!
awdgJ TIL Members of the Parliament of the UK are technically not permitted to resign; instead, they apply to be appointed 'Steward and Bailiff' of one of two obscure places which are an 'office of profit under the Crown'. Being paid by the Crown disqualifies from being MP.
7rnXp TIL of Federal Express Flight 705. In April 1994, a disgruntled, suicidal employee tried to hijack and down the plane, brutally attacking the crew with a hammer. The wounded captain put the DC-10 in a dive and rolled it to incapacitate the attacker before landing successfully.
GYLgQ TIL about Michael Taylor (demoniac), and English butcher born in 1944. He is known for the Ossett murder case in 1974 and his demonic possessions. There is very little info about him, does anyone know where he is now? His last arrest was in 2005. He would be in his 70s-80s today.
ddjE TIL that Pat Morita (Mr. Miyagi) spent his first 9 years of his life in a hospital and when he was finally well enough to leave, was sent to a Japanese internment camp in Arizona.