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TIL that Nazis presented the first epidemiological study linking tobacco use and cancer and launched the first and most broadly reaching anti-smoking campaign of modern times.

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VMDgG TIL Sleep deprivation impairs the suppression of unwanted thoughts
jNXjM TIL: Mister Rogers flatuated in public to make his wife laugh
ORdR TIL that many restaurant food poisonings occur due to uncleaned ice machines, not actual food
WJEY TIL Ronnie Gibbs, a 15 year old girl with a drug problem, was sentenced to (and is serving) life in prison without parole for having a miscarriage after trying to get clean
Q6E6 TIL in 2009, David Booth, a park ranger in Scotland, packed up his metal detector, drove to a field, and scored big. His first sweep yielded 4 gold neck bands, from the first century B.C.—the most important hoard of Iron Age gold found in Scotland to date.