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TIL that SNL cast member Cecily Strong was expelled from high school for bringing marijuana to school.

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DQeLv TIL Reattachment surgery is a modern invention/treatment, with the first reattachment occuring in 1962. The procedure relies on microsurgery to successfully reconnect nerves and blood vessels; typically requiring an operating microscope and micro sutures.
QMrM TIL the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 is known as the most devastating epidemic in recorded world history and that it killed more people in 1 year than during the 4 years of the Black Plague. It was most deadly for people aged 20-40 and many died within hours of contracting the virus.
R7Xv6 TIL about John Atanasoff, who built the first digital computer, but got very little credit because his employer, Iowa State College, never filed the patent application
awXGZ TIL that during the American Revolution at the Siege of Boston —as winter approached— the Americans were so short on gunpowder that soldiers were given spears to fight with in the event of a British attack
DQQ8j TIL that killer whales/orcas are the apex predator of the ocean, not great white sharks.