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TIL Cats put their butts in your face because they are allowing you to “get to know” them

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wgvE TIL that in 1924, when Standard Oil was researching tetraethyl lead as a gasoline additive, 32 of 49 workers had to be hospitalized due to lead poisoning, and 5 of them died. A federal panel made entirely of industry scientists later concluded that there “no danger” from tetraethyl lead.
5RjB TIL that pilots and flight crews are federally classified by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) as “radiation workers” and receive higher doses of radiation than all other US radiation-exposed workers.
awP8J TIL: The first Hannibal Lecter movie was not The Silence of the Lambs. But a film called Manhunter from 1986. Though they renamed Lecter to Lecktor.
W7X8Y TIL Throughout Australia, there are approximately 400 courses that have greens comprised of oiled sand or some other similar material, usually due to the prohibitive cost of maintaining grass greens by small clubs in rural areas.
m1l7p TIL that rhinoplasty surgeries date back to the sixth century B.C. in India. An Indian physician named Sushruta documented instructions in the Sushruta Samhita for performing scores of surgical procedures – including three types of skin grafts and reconstruction of the nose.