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TIL: The oldest known medical text is a book about vaginas.

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rgGw TIL that the children’s menu was created during prohibition as a result of restaurants attempting to offset the losses from going “dry”.
N7PO8 TIL that a doctor on an Air Canada flight jerry-rigged a device to help a toddler breath who was having an asthma attack. Dr. Khurshid Guru, director of Robotic Surgery at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, created a nebulizer using a water bottle, a cup, oxygen, and an adult inhaler.
rNenx TIL that the longest time between two twins being born is 90 days
edvg TIL that Google Maps calculates traffic by tracking how fast Android devices are moving on the road.
jNLKR TIL of the Hand Angels, a Taiwanese NGO whose main service is giving hand jobs to the severely disabled.