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TIL The Dark Side of the Rainbow is the pairing of the Pink Floyd album The Dark Side of the Moon with the film The Wizard of Oz. This produces numerous moments of apparent synchronicity where the film and the album appear to correspond. Members of Pink Floyd denied any intent to connect them.

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P147V TIL in 1874, Mary Rafferty came to Dr. Roberts Bartholow at Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati for a lesion. The lesion was diagnosed as cancerous and surgery was attempted. Bartholow saw her lesion as terminal so decided to experiment on her exposed brain. He was condemned by his peers for this.
7daM TIL that after a 1946 plane crash, Howard Hughes decided he did not like the design of the hospital bed he was laying in. He called in his engineers and had them design a new bed that would allow someone with severe burns to move freely. It became the prototype for the modern hospital bed.
Qamp TIL that the State of Kansas is literally flatter than a pancake.
5YQ6B TIL about "whisker fatigue" in cats - they eat only from the center of their food bowls and then cry about it because brushing their whiskers on the side of the bowl causes sensory overload
YpOLA TIL 'Assload' and 'Buttload' are actual defined units of measure--the former being the maximum load of a donkey (about 8 bushels), the latter a large cask with a volume of 491 liters/108 Imperial gallons.