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TIL that the disease “the bends” were discovered while workers on the Brooklyn bridge came up too quickly while working down in the caissons

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xVKYo Today I learned that the Scoville scale which is used to figure out the heat of any given pepper is determined by the number of dilutions of sugar water needed to eliminate the heat.
b979j TIL of Kiyoshi Kimura - A sushi restaurant chain CEO who helped reduce Somali pirates activity by giving them training in fisheries, initially sourcing them fishing vessels and networking them to the fishery distribution network. Ultimately helping them to become fishermen
QJpLa TIL American Gothic (1930) by Grant Wood depicts a Farmer and his Daughter, not a Farmer and his Wife
45BJ TIL London is one of the most surveilled cities on the planet, with 51,000 CCTV cameras. On average, a Londoner is captured on camera 300 times a day. The other cities with the most cameras are Beijing, Chicago, New York and Chongqing, China.
eeR6 TIL that Tom Petty does the voice of ‘Lucky’ in King of the Hill