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TIL that fetuses can get the hiccups

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erPL TIL A seven-year-old Russian boy gave up his life saving his sister from her rapist.
Z8X8G TIL about Scheele’s Green, a popular pigment in the 1800s made with deadly arsenic. One famous death was of a flowermaker, who dusted the pigment onto fake foliage. “She vomited green waters; the whites of her eyes had turned green, and she told her doctor that ‘everything she looked at was green.’”
a8gDJ TIL that domestic cats kill 1.3 - 4.0 billion birds and 6.3 - 22.3 billion mammals annually in the United States.
woDgE TIL that the Indian subcontinent used to be the largest economy of any region in the world between the 1st and 18th centuries
4Xlwa TIL that we have prescription drug ads on TV because of one young woman's job interview.