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TIL there is one living person who uses an iron lung

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JYGoQ TIL K-pop members have to sign lengthy contracts which enforce them to practice a lot, gives the labels control over how they dress, what they say, and even who they have a romantic relationship with. Also, the government tailors schools to create talented singers and dancers. It is a business.
1Ek7 TIL in 2002 a 15-year-old boy tried to replicate the attacks on 9/11 by crashing a plane into an office building
WVV4 TIL that in the late 1970s, the US Government sprayed Paraquat (a deadly herbicide) on Mexican Cannabis fields and subsequently warned Americans that the chemical rendered Marijuana unsafe to smoke in order to deter users.
RO6a TIL that telling someone “this is going to hurt” and “this won’t hurt at all” has a physical impact on the brain which actually increases or decreases the pain you feel. (Study by Koyama et al 2005)
Wk4Z9 TIL that male chicks are ground up alive on their first day of birth in the egg industry