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TIL Zillion is not a number

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WbJ4 TIL that an early Chinese surgeon named Hua Tuo used Cannabis mixed with wine as an anaesthetic. As a result the Chinese term for “anesthesia” (mázui 麻醉) literally means “cannabis intoxication”.
4kNxg TIL that I’ve been eating pizza lunchables on hard mode.
4ZbX TIL Freddie Mercury released a solo album in 1985 that was dedicated “to my cat Jerry—also Tom, Oscar and Tiffany, and all the cat lovers across the universe—screw everybody else”
8e0nV TIL about proton beam therapy, a type of radiotherapy that uses a beam of high energy protons, to treat highly specific types of cancer.
R7Ej6 TIL: A 2017 study by statistician Nathan Yau found the career divorce rates. Bartenders, flight attendants , massage therapists, and nurses had the highest at around 45-50%. Meanwhile, actuaries had the lowest at 17%, followed by software developers, engineers, scientists, and eye doctors.