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TIL welders are not allowed to get MRIs because of the possibility of microscopic metal fragments lodged within their body

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1aDpO TIL Tom Hanks Steve Martin, and Martin Short have their colonoscopies done together and even ride in the same car...
rRdjW TIL a Ukrainian child psychiatrist, Grunya Sukhareva, discovered Asperger Syndrome 20 years before Hans Asperger did
WErd TIL that Donald Trump paid off a man’s mortgage after he helped change flat tires in Trump’s stranded Limo.
XLkj TIL that Paris Hilton was robbed for millions in jewels by a bunch of teenagers. She had left her mansion unlocked with no one home. She didn’t notice the robbery for weeks.
W8Go TIL A UK university was fine £400,000 after 2 students were accidentally given a lethal dose of caffeine during a scientific experiment. Because of a misplaced decimal point on the phone used to calculate the caffeine dosage, they received 30g instead of the planned 0.3g. The lethal dose is 18g.