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TIL that Rainbows are affected by polarization.

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epkA5 TIL in 1811, Frances Burney wrote a first-hand account of her mastectomy performed without anesthesia. “When the dreadful steel was plunged into my breast…cutting through veins, arteries, flesh, nerves…I needed no injunctions not to restrain my cries.”
9wOnX TIL Nintendo partnered with the Minnesota State Lottery to develop an expansion for the NES console that allowed people to buy lotto tickets from their home.
GApAQ TIL the hollow stick on(most) lollipops is to prevent choking, allowing air to pass through it even if the stick is swallowed.
l7PV TIL the original broadcasts of MAS*H in the UK contained no laugh track (as was intended by the show’s creators). It was only because CBS required it that the show had a prominent laugh track in the U.S.