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TIL that May 12 is International Nurses Day. It is the anniversary of Florence Nightingale's birth.

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9Ybn6 TIL in 1941 the grandmother of Martin Luther King fell down and became unresponsive. MLK blamed himself and attempting suicide by jumping from a second story window
Rorj TIL There is enough water in Lake Superior to cover the entire land mass of North and South America to a depth of 30 centimetres (12 in).
95JM TIL that according to a 2013 study, practitioners of BDSM (Bondage, Discipline & Sado-Masochism) have a better mental health overall than practitioners of “vanilla” sex.
RwO1 TIL when the 14 minute video of “Thriller” was first released, MTV had to run it twice an hour to meet demand
woEdP TIL: In WW2, the Japanese developed Defoliation Bacilli Bombs to launch biological attacks on farmland, reservoirs, wells and populated areas using anthrax, plague fleas, typhoid, cholera, and the bubonic plague. Unit 731 created it, and became bioweapons researchers and were not prosecuted.