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TIL That Eminem sampled Argentinian rockstar Luis Alberto Spinetta in 'Stepdad', a song from his latest album 'Music to be murdered by'

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XE79Q TIL an election team in India travels over 35km to collect a vote from a single voter in the region.
GV0G TIL 85 percent of Belarusian children are deemed to be Chernobyl victims: they carry “genetic markers” that could affect their health at any time and can be passed on to the next generation
1Y0r TIL that PhD students display twice as many symptoms of psychiatric disorders such as depression than other people.
X0AZ8 TIL that medical bloodletting dates back to ancient Egypt and spread to Greece where the practice was rationalized as balancing the four “humors.” In 1163, the Church prohibited clergy healers from performing the procedure, calling it an abhorred practice, so barbers began to offer the service.
7daM TIL that after a 1946 plane crash, Howard Hughes decided he did not like the design of the hospital bed he was laying in. He called in his engineers and had them design a new bed that would allow someone with severe burns to move freely. It became the prototype for the modern hospital bed.