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TIL that the New Zealand All Blacks are the most winning team in any sport anywhere in the world.

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b9vVE TIL of Vivien Thomas, An African-American surgical technician that developed the procedures used to treat blue baby syndrome ( a fatal heart condition in infants) in the 1940s. He was offered the position of Chief of Surgery at Johns Hopkins (his alma mater) in 1941.
j6RKQ TIL that the one-way speed of light is still undefined. All measurements of light speed are done using two-way (mirror) setups.
NvWM TIL Sony has a patent on making viewers yell product names out loud to end TV ads
0dpXR TIL that in the 18th century, there was a man named Charles Domery who reportedly ate an entire cat, then proceeded to eat the candles and the stuffing from his bed. He also allegedly ate live snakes and lizards, and claimed that his insatiable hunger was due to a "worm" in his stomach.
p891A TIL that in 1898 doctors began to suspect that smoking caused lung cancer, despite the fact that there were only 140 published cases of the then rare disease in 1900