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TIL South Korea’s first astronaut is a female
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TIL use of asbestos dates back at least 4500 years ago
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TIL Chemotherapy drugs to fight cancer were discovered in WW1 where the effects of mustard gas on surviors reduced the amount of rapidly dividing cells like white blood cells. First drug developed based on this research was called Mustine.
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TIL that Soul Asylum’s "Runaway Train" helped find 25 missing children featured in the music video, but also led to a girl being returned to a "bad home situation" and a fireman discovering his daughter was killed by her mother and buried in the mother's backyard.
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TIL that Orcas are the largest species in the dolphin family (Delphinidae).
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TIL Loki was captured by the gods and bound by his son's entrails and tortured with snake venom until he escaped during Ragnarok.