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TIL Consumption of Alcohol Helps People Decontaminate themselves from Radiation.

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wPLE TIL there is a Train station in Sweden that uses people’s body heat to warm adjacent buildings
kJpx4 TIL Earth has had several temporary moons
gDM7 TIL the first female Athenian doctor had to dress as a man in order to get her education and practice medicine because being a female doctor was a capital crime, but when she became the most popular doctor in town among women in her male guise, the other doctors accused her of seducing her patients.
KOlaR TIL that moveable type printing was invented by a Chinese man named Bi Sheng 300 years before Guttenberg. He was largely forgotten due to his status as a peasant.
JYYYj TIL Microsoft installed a backdoor in Skype to allow Chinese, Russian and United States law enforcement agencies to eavesdrop on Skype conversations, as well as have access to Skype users’ geographic locations after they purchased Skype in 2011 for the law enforcement agencies around the world.