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TIL Nazi scientists were the first to link smoking with lung cancer

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16QY4 TIL of ‘Tule Fog’ a weather phenomenon that happens in the Central Valley California where fog is so thick it can be seen from space.
m1Xoy TIL Lobster Chew With Their Stomach
LkB0m TIL that according to DuPont, the name "Nylon" was originally called "No-Run," but was modified to "Nuron" to avoid making an unjustified claim. Later it was changed to "Nilon" to make it sound less like medicine, and then eventually "Nylon" so that people would pronounce it properly.
djXK TIL: U.S. Senator Jake Garn who flew aboard Space Shuttle Discovery as a payload specialist experienced such severe space sickness that a scale for space sickness was named after him, where “one Garn” is used to represent total incapacitation.
pWKe TIL that 90% of the worlds population lives in the northern hemisphere