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TIL that the stethoscope was invented when a doctor felt uncomfortable placing his head on a woman's chest.

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eP1n TIL that a popular 70s Japanese kids show called Rascal the Raccoon led to a raccoon adoption craze in Japan. Eventually, raccoons invaded the wild, where they continue to this day to wreak havoc on infrastructure and the environment as they have no natural predators.
VBBMG TIL : The Anthem of the European Union is not the Ode to Joy created by Beethoven but an arrangement by Karrajan with very minimal differences, thus yielding royalties to Karrajan instead of being in the public domain.
DQBOe TIL that there is a clear iPhone
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wNJ1 TIL bananas are actually used for scale… for measuring radioactivity