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TIL The average healthy human produced 1 to 2 liters of snot per day

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949G TIL that hundreds of years ago, most surgeries were performed by barbers (yes, the folks who cut hair) and that physicians felt that performing surgery was beneath them.
oRnj7 TIL-K.I.T.T in Knight Rider was voiced by William Daniels, popularly known as the actor who played Mr. Feeny in Boy Meets World
a8gj0 TIL about a man found dead on an Australian beach in 1948, with all the labels from his clothes removed, and a paper piece with the phrase "Tamam Shud" ("It is finished") sewn into his pocket. Later an undeciphered code was found from a book belonging to him. His identity remains unknown.
nYY7 TIL that a cement truck crashed near Wingamon, Oklahoma in the 1950s and the mixer was too heavy to move. It’s still there, and locals have painted it to look like an abandoned NASA space capsule.
YEeW TIL that CPU manufacturing is so unpredictable that every chip must be tested, since the majority of finished chips are defective. Those that survive are assigned a model number and price reflecting their maximum safe performance.