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TIL a medical fetish company donated medical scrubs to a UK hospital after requests by UK National Health Service reps. The company bills itself as “the only online store 100% dedicated to Medical Fetish, Kink and Roleplay” with “genuine medical grade items.”

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xVGZw TIL that there is a link between regular Benadryl usage & the risk of getting dementia.
vGpK TIL in 2003 Dave Grohl was on the top of the Billboard Modern Rock chart for 17 of 18 successive weeks, as a member of three different groups
rNNK1 TIL Thomas Wise was a keen collector of first editions in original condition dating back to Elizabethan era and given an honorary M.A. by University of Oxford. He parlayed his reputation as a collector of books into a career in creating and selling forgeries of nearly 300 works of English authors.
BrJJW TIL Wet Wet Wet lead Marty Pellow had their hit song Love is All Around removed from sales not long after going to the cinema and hearing someone say "God, not that song again!" as the Four Weddings trailer played, it was still selling 120k copies/week when it was pulled 3.5 months after release.
MeLXB TIL that the trope of pirates saying "ARRR" was popularised by actor Robert Newton who played Long John Silver in the 1950 Disney film. In Treasure Island, Long John Silver is from the west country and so Newton took slang from the region and exaggerated it. "ooh arr" means "yes"