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TIL that the medically approved way to test for a pinworm infection is called ‘scotch tape test’: where you tape the patient’s asshole and remove it to check for eggs.

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x6XP0 TIL Lynn Redgrave is the only person to have been nominated for an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony without winning any of them.
n0Qb TIL in 1963 Wendell Scott became to first African American to win a Nascar Race. Though being two laps ahead of the other cars, was ignored because the winner was to kiss a white beauty queen. He was awarded the trophy in 2010, 20 years after his death. (More in Comments).
j6rKv TIL A Lambretta Amphi-Scooter was developed in the mid-1960s and shown in a Pathé newsreel crossing the Thames. It consisted of a 1964 Lambretta J125 scooter with hinged fiberglass pontoons, paddle mechanism and a front rudder.
QJKoX TIL that the Holodomor, a man-made famine, killed millions of people in the Ukraine between 1932–1933. 16 countries consider it as a genocide.
Y7xRx TIL: The stereotype of someone having a seizure say they smell buring toast comes from a real life 1950s case of Dr Wilder Penfield whose patient would smell burning toast before having a seizure