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TIL Cat Stevens wrote The First Cut Is The Deepest

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0NO5 TIL The term “kosher salt” derives not from its being made in accordance with the guidelines for kosher foods as written in the Torah (nearly all salt is kosher, including ordinary table salt), but rather due to its use in making meats kosher by removing surface blood.
KO9B TIL that in 1987 some Brazilian thieves stole a radioactive medical device and opened it. Some people died, and hundreds were contaminated.
XJd8 TIL Disney World has an abandoned water park next to their abandoned island
Db7e TIL the scientist, Clair Patterson, who helped develop the atomic bomb, also saved humanity by stopping the use of Leaded Gasoline.
yDXl TIL of a boy who got his own NASA space suit. He lived in a bubble for all his life since he had a disease that left him defenseless against germs. The suit allowed him to go outside and play. And although the procedure to put it on was complicated, he could finally go and learn with kids his age.