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TIL second hand smoke above 1.2 hour weekly doubles the chance of kidney stones

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69NO8 TIL that small dog breeds with stubby legs, such as Dachshunds, Corgis, Pekinese and Basset Hounds, are actually suffering from a form of dwarfism
pYv08 TIL A Tortoise survived without its head for 23 days
xVDJw TIL the first time british soldiers engaged american soldiers during the American Revolution they were ordered to "lay down your arms, you damned rebels ". When the american commanding officer ordered his men to stand down he wasn't heard properly due to having tubercolisis. Fighting ensued.
lp7G TIL Charles Sheridan repeated Milgram’s experiment with one difference. He used a puppy as a victim instead of a human. Intriguingly, the six students out of 26 that refused to go on were all men while all thirteen women who participated in the experiment obeyed right up until the end.
E1mEW TIL in 2011 a small team of Japanese Firefighters saved Tokyo from being uninhabitable for decades by bravely keeping spent fuel rods cooled and unexposed